Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1436

the large mainframe of old tended to have large user propulations. After standard testing ... deployed systems tended to have uniquely reported bugs proportional to the uniquely different things it was being used for. this tended to result in some increase in uniquely reported bugs up until some threshold of 500-600 (of these really large sysems with large user populations) ... but while the number of bug reports somewhat tended to increase proportional to the number of system-users ... the number of uniquely reported bugs didn't tend to continue growing (say as the number of systems increased from 500-600 to possibly 20,000).

i would also conjecture for those individuals interested in launching serious internet attacks ... that dockmaster might have represented an extremely attractive target:

... you could do search in various crypto archives for much of the 90s for "dockmaster" in the email address.

while the internal network had more nodes the internet from just about the arpanet origins up thru sometime mid-85

a large part of the internet node growth in the post 1-1-83 switchover to internetworking protocol ... where for individual node machines ... while the internal network continued to be primarily large mainframe systems.

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