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From: kent@WSL.DEC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: anonymous messages
Message-ID: <8811120146.AA03051@gnomee.pa.dec.com>
Date: 12 Nov 88 01:46:13 GMT
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Only Unix (that is, 4.2-derived systems) reserve ports less than 512.
There's no restriction on, say, an IBM PC running a random
implementation of TCP and Telnet.

chris