There's nothing new under the sun!

[Ben Laurie]

Richard Snow wrote:
> 
> During a routine web browsing session, I came across the following at

"I was proceeding in a westerly direction on the Information
Superhighway when..." :-)

> http://www.deter.com/unix/papers/treatise_locks.html :
> 
> "Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, 1853 (excerpt)
> 
> -- Charles Tomlinson
[snip]
> By the way, if anyone can point me at the original source of this (it
> appeared on the Web exactly as it is reproduced here, with no further
> references), I would be very grateful.

That is also quoted in Cheswick & Bellovin, p. 144. No further
references, but you could try asking them...

Cheers,

Ben.

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