Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson are the authors of the Systems Approach series of computer networking textbooks. Mark Twain has been called the greatest humorist the United States has produced and the father of American literature. This episode, the first collaboration among these celebrated authors, incorporates elements of the works of both [1, 2].

For more information on the Systems Approach series, visit systemsapproach.org or follow the series on substack as systemsapproach or Twitter as and @SystemsAppr. On Twitter, you can find Bruce as @_drbruced, Larry as @_llpete, and Mark as @MarkTwain.

Bruce and Larry were previously featured in Episode 73: Computer Networks: A Systems Approach.

OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The intro music in this episode is Drive, featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The outro music is Space Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. Fanfares et Simphonies by Jean-Joseph Mouret, performed by Jean-Marie Leclair, dir. Jean-François Paillard, downloaded via imslp.org, is licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0 - Non-PD US. The scratch sound effect by Stumber was downloaded via freesound.org and licensed under Creative Common Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). The episode as a whole is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).