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willempienaartoday at 3:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Also, the “cell” in Generic Cell Rate Algorithm is an ATM cell. GCRA is 1990s telecom, the scheduling algorithm ATM switches used to check that 53-byte cells were arriving on the wire at the agreed rate.


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b33j0rtoday at 5:39 PM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (I had to look it up too.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode