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From: wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.082236.16832@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 90 08:22:36 GMT
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In-Reply-To: CSYSMAS@OAC.UCLA.EDU's message of 12 Jun 90 14:58:00 GMT

CSYSMAS@OAC.UCLA.EDU (Michael Stein) writes:

>Net 10 is a class A network number.  As we run out of network
>numbers someone is going to need it, don't stick it in some
>museum.

Oh, come now. Nobody's big enough to need a class A network. Entities
that have class A networks now didn't get them because they've got big
networks; they got them for political reasons. MIT and Stanford were
big with DARPA. MERIT runs NSFNET. It'll be a long, long time before
anyone with a class A net manages to accumulate sixteen million hosts.

Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
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