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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:15:16 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Of login (and host) names
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Norman Wilson scripsit:

> So far as I recall, nothing broke.  Some people who were
> involved with TCP/IP networking at the labs were frightened
> about it; I don't remember whether that Cray was ever connected
> to an IP network so I don't know whether anything went wrong
> there.  Of course such names are not a problem today, 

ISTR that {net,comp}.bugs.4bsd gave some news software a headache.

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