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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Beginner's info TCP & UDP
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Date: 23 Jul 90 13:55:14 GMT
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One point I would add, Barry: You (or another ranking net.guru) would
be quite capable of recognizing a special case of the sort you posit,
and using UDP appropriately.  However, you might miss the telltale
glint in your customer's eyes when you told him "alternative X can be
done in half the time, but it restricts the product to single
Ethernets".  The consequences of trying to hack a 'one-cable' design
into a 'coast-to-coast' application are painful to the whole network.

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