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Postel

Postel \Pos"tel\, n. Apostle. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

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Postel

Postel is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Christian Heinrich Postel (1658–1705), German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist
  • Georg-Wilhelm Postel, a World War II German general
  • Gert Postel, a German impostor
  • Guillaume Postel, a French polymath
  • Jon Postel, an Internet pioneer
  • Kaitlynne Postel, a competitor for Miss America 2008
  • Sandra Postel, founder of the Global Water Policy Project

Usage examples of "postel".

Orientalists, like Postel, Scaliger, Golius, Pockoke, and Erpenius, produced Orientalist studies that were too narrowly grammatical, lexicographical, geographical, or the like.

While Cerf and Crocker were academic stars, Postel, who was twenty-five, had had a more checkered academic career.

Crocker, Postel, Wingfield, Vint and Sigrid Cerf, and a handful of curiosity seekers.

Often they were joined by Cerf, and occasionally by Crocker and Postel as well.

In early July 1972, the final touches were put on FTP, and Jon Postel, now the editor and distributor of the Requests For Comments, released it as RFC 354.

Later that evening, Jon Postel was in the exhibition room sitting at a keyboard, logged on to the host at UCLA.

When Postel shipped the file to the printer sitting beside him, nothing happened.

Once Postel decided that creating a separate protocol was the right thing to do, he set about making sure it got done.

There were so many, in fact, that in an attempt to impose some order, Jon Postel issued an RFC assigning numbers to the networks.

But at the other end of the spectrum was Jon Postel, the unsung hero of networking.

Al Vezza, Bob Kahn, Steve Crocker, Len Kleinrock, Jon Postel, Alex McKenzie, and Larry Roberts.

The following people allowed us to interview them at length: Wes Clark, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Severo Ornstein, Bob Taylor, Larry Roberts, Jon Postel, Frank Heart, Alex McKenzie, Dave Walden, Ben Barker, Donald Davies, Paul Baran, Len Kleinrock, Steve Lukasik, Steve Crocker, and Bob Metcalfe.

Renaissance Orientalists like Erpenius and Guillaume Postel were primarily specialists in the languages of the Biblical provinces, although Postel boasted that he could get across Asia as far as China without needing an interpreter.

A similar commission was entrusted to Guillaume Postel, one of the greatest linguists that ever lived, but so crazy that he believed himself to be Adam born to live again, and so unfortunate that he could seldom keep out of a prison.

What would have prevented Bacon or Postel, or even Foucault-who must have been a Templar himself, seeing all the fuss he made over the Pendulum-from just putting a map of the world on the floor and orienting it by the cardinal points?