[182375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Wed Jul 15 17:43:43 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:43:38 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D99C3785-455C-41B5-A5A1-6781086515AF@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:23:52 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> I will point out that nobody has said “what the F*** were they thinking”
> when they made it possible to use 4GB of RAM instead of just 640k, but
> lots of people have said “what the F*** were they thinking when they
> limited it to 640k.”
Actually, they did. And "PAE" was invented. (or "re-invented", as various
paging mechanisms had existed for many decades by then)
