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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:22:21 -0400 From: Izaac <izaac@setec.org> To: nanog@nanog.org Mail-Followup-To: nanog@nanog.org In-Reply-To: <506C6D69.5080506@dds.nl> Reply-To: Izaac <izaac@setec.org> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:52:57PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > "Pick a number between this and that." It's the 80's and you can > still count the computers in the world. :) And yet, almost concurrently, IEEE 802 went with forty-eight bits. Go figure. I'm pretty sure the explanation you're looking for is: It was with the word size of the most popular minis and micros at the time. -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__
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