[157020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Oct 3 16:01:20 2012
To: "Tony Patti" <tony@swalter.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:44:16 -0400."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:59:12 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:44:16 -0400, "Tony Patti" said:
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> Perhaps worth noting (for the archives) that a significant part of the early
> ARPAnet was DECsystem-10's with 36-bit words.
And the -10s and -20s were the major reason RFCs refer to octets rather than bytes,
as they had a rather slippery notion of "byte" (anywhere from 6 to 9 bits, often multiple
sizes used *in the same program*).
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