[HECnet] Area 48.....
Steve Davidson
jeep at scshome.net
Mon Jan 7 11:08:15 PST 2013
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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 14:02
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Area 48.....
On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
Wouldn't it be ironic if Hecnet ran out of addresses :)
Does anyone know what the largest DECnet deplayment was
duing the good old days?
The internal net at DEC was seriously out of addresses,
though just like IP that's partly because the addressing
scheme forced it to be somewhat sparse. Still, there were
certainly tens of thousands of nodes on it.
paul
And let's not forget the hidden areas that DEC was forced to go to...
-Steve
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