On Jan 11, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Peter wrote:
>> [multicast vs broadcast, and "broadcast storms."]
> Ok, my confusion. Point taken wrt. Unix being broken ;-) When was
> that and which *nix was broken ?

Mid to late 1980s.  It was 4.2BSD that had "odd" ideas about
internet addresses and such; that was about the only network-aware
unix that existed at the time, and everyone who could was copying
their network code.   I was working at Stanford at the
time, and the big offenders as far as machines went were the early
SUN workstations, which were found there in abundance.  (SUN being
a Stanford spinoff...)

It was about that time that the unix-haters mailing list was
active, mainly holding mainframe and lisp machine people who
were decrying the unix philosophy of ... ignoring other philosophies.
It was/is very disorienting that unix is now "the good guy."

BillW
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