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Or you could spare those 2 bytes at a cost of being unable to listen on one out of 65536 ports. In 1983, this tradeoff absolutely made sense: 64K ports should b
by Joker_vD 6y ago
Or you could spare those 2 bytes at a cost of being unable to listen on one out of 65536 ports. In 1983, this tradeoff absolutely made sense: 64K ports should be enough for everyone.
- monocasa 6y agoEven in 1983, the kinds of machines expecting to be networked with IP could spare the occasional couple bytes here and there if it meant being able to signal out of band information to the stack without carving out a set of the wire formats as unencodable.