> Actually, they did, because everything in the early days had very small memory sizes. This was the 16-bit era. I don't think that's a possibility. If buffers

> Actually, they did, because everything in the early days had very small memory sizes. This was the 16-bit era. I don't think that's a possibility. If buffers are smaller then buffer capacity was not infinite, and the same failure modes applied. Triggering dropped packets/connections was just a matter of sending enough network traffic down a pipe, which given buffers were small then it wasn't a technical feat.