[ih] how big was the host file

[Nigel Roberts]

In 1978 MIT-AI was @O to to 134 and MIT-DM was 70.

I think SAIL was 26 or 28, or maybe 6.

So my hazy recollection is that there were less that 255 unique hosts.


On 06/02/2020 13:40, Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history wrote:
> John Day wrote:
>> Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>>> An MIT hosts file from 1973 was 134 lines.
>> Why was it so large?
>>
>> There certainly weren’t 134 hosts on the ’Net in 1973.  Wasn’t the
>> maximum number then still 64?
> 
> Sorry, I see now the file has two lists.  The first list is in
> alphabetical order, and the second is in numerical-ish order.
> 
> There are 66 unique host numbers, of which 14 are TIPs.
>