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From: panek@hp-and.HP.COM (Jon Panek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: X.25
Message-ID: <2050001@hp-and.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 19:23:29 GMT
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Organization: HP Andover Division (Massachusetts)
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The actual x.25 specification doesn't address "operating systems" per se.
I do believe (from old memory) that the number of bits allocated in the
standard message frame for addressee is 8 bits.  This would effectively
limit the number of addressable sites (on the link level, at any rate)
to 256.

Jon Panek
panek@hp-and.hp.com