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Comments: In-reply-to Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] SUN (Stanford University Network) was PC Unix
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Lawrence Stewart writes:
> Regarding the SUN-1 design, I had heard a rumor that it was designed using TTL
> “typical” propagation delays rather than worst case, and as a result was fairly
> flakey.

It's astonishing how common a practice that was back then.