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Re: what about 48 bits?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Apr 5 14:35:22 2010

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On 05/04/2010 18:51, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Yup.  10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, if memory serves.

To be fair, everything for a vax was somewhat pricey.  And slow.

On an even more unrelated note, does anyone remember the day that 
CMU-TEK tcp/ip stopped working some time in the early 1990s?  That was a 
load of fun.

Nick


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