Yes, and this is the same shotgun process that managed to avoid congestion collapse. Not by spending 6 years fretting about it, but by writing the TCP stack in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.
32 bit addresses were a good idea. It's easy to look back on it now and say "they should have used 128 bit integers", but until recently, 32 bit addresses were the largest addresses that worked as scalars in all mainstream platforms.
32 bit addresses were a good idea. It's easy to look back on it now and say "they should have used 128 bit integers", but until recently, 32 bit addresses were the largest addresses that worked as scalars in all mainstream platforms.