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The world will never need more than five computers (Thomas Watson, IBM).
I thought it was more like, an estimated market for about 5 computers.
I usually quote this when explaining IPv6 to my students (at the Cisco Academy). It turns out that when TCP/IP was being developed, 4 billion (4e9) IP addresses seemed like a lot. Now only NAT allows us to use those scarce addresses a while longer. The eventual transition to longer addresses (16 bytes instead of 4 bytes) seems inevitable in the long run, but right now, this transition is going way too slow.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
