KMSquote: KMS design goal of a quarter second to follow a link, may be optimal

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Our design goal for KMS is to be able to access and display a random frame across a wide-area network in less than .25 seconds on average. (Newell has argued that response faster than .25 seconds will not benefit users [NEWE77]).   Google-1   Google-2

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