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It was Xerox & Yogen Dalal's choice, not Bob's choice! Xerox blew it with 8-bit station addresses in PuP (PARC Universal Protocol) and wanted to give each stat
by williamDafoe 4y ago
It was Xerox & Yogen Dalal's choice, not Bob's choice! Xerox blew it with 8-bit station addresses in PuP (PARC Universal Protocol) and wanted to give each station a UID to break ties in database transactions, hence the 48-bits. XNS actually had 3-byte station and 3-byte network size to fit in 6-byte MAC addresses! Metcalfe is not a software engineer and wouldn't have these insights ...