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No one and I mean NO ONE had any clue how widely deployed IPv4 would end up being. It went literally beyond everyone's wildest expectations who was alive at the
by pmarreck 4y ago
No one and I mean NO ONE had any clue how widely deployed IPv4 would end up being. It went literally beyond everyone's wildest expectations who was alive at the time of its inception.
- kjs3 4y agoI don't think anything I wrote disagrees. As someone who started implementing IP networks just a couple of years after RFC791 was published, I'd say that was completely correct. But more than 40 years later, the fact that it has gone beyond everyone's wildest expectations means some of those early design decisions are starting to bite. Unlike tabs in makefiles, which is just something certain types of people like to complain about.
- amoss 4y ago> Unlike tabs in makefiles, which is just something certain types of people like to complain about. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch15s04.html http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch15s04.html Which "certain type" are Stuart Feldman and Steve Johnson?