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Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> read "the art of networking style" for a great rant on standards.
>=20
> Note that film standards are ISO/DIN numbers -- not one number, two.
> That's how they resolved how to pick the #.
>=20
> 48 byte cells came from standards.

Ah, but think of the elegance that comes from adding an odd byte-length
of header to result in a prime-number sized packet :-)

> ron
	Adrian

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
Latitude 38=C2=B0S, Longitude 145=C2=B0E, Altitude 50m,      Shoe size 44
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