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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know!
Date: 28 Jul 1994 21:12:51 GMT
Organization: Information Network Services, Case Western Reserve University
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References: <CtKBJ5.77B@rex.uokhsc.edu> <3163r7$440@quagga.ru.ac.za> <CtMnq1.C8@rex.uokhsc.edu> <CtnLDs.6zG@cs.vu.nl>
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In article <CtnLDs.6zG@cs.vu.nl>, Philip Homburg <philip@cs.vu.nl> wrote:

>A well known property of BSD code is of course the use of x.x.x.0 as
>a broadcast address.

A well-known property of 4.2 BSD code.  This has not been true for at
least the past eight years.

Sun made a bad decision to keep x.x.x.0 the default for `backwards
compatibility', but that's not BSD. 
-- 
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats.  I don't intend
 to waste any of mine running around doing exercises." - Neil Armstrong

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu