[ih] how big was the host file

[John Day]

Then I was wrong. 64 was just IMP numbers. Ports were separate.

How many IMPs have multiple hosts?  Stanford, MIT, BBN, UCLA, I know. Who else?

John

> On Feb 6, 2020, at 08:40, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> 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.