[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation

[Dan Cross]

In article <uoc3gf$2oe4i$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 1/18/2024 3:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> DECnet had an address space so restricted, it make the 32-bit IP address
>> space seem expansive.
>
>16 bit is less than 32 bit.
>
>If DEC had known how large DECnet networks would become, then they
>would probably have chosen 32 bit.
>
>But it is difficult to predict the future.
>
>>                     And whose dumb idea was it to tie the DECnet address
>> to the MAC address?
>
>It is pretty smart. No need for an extra protocol.

IPv6 with SLAAC does the same thing.  It's very convenient;
though of course the IPv6 address space is much larger than
either DECnet or IPv4.

	- Dan C.