NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/apple2/23840

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From: js5370@eehp27 (Jerry A Segler Jr)
Subject: Re: Size of the Internet
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:00:36 GMT
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[e-mail] writes:

>it was estimated there are 1.3 million host
>computers on the Internet, with an estimated 4.5 million total number of
>users.  Note that the low ratio between those two numbers implies there
>a lot of hosts with one or two or three users, e.g., individual
>workstations.

Or there are a lot of host machines that the same group of people have access
to.  Like the uiuc student system, where an engineering student can have access
to (depending on how you count it) over 300 machines.  And over a hundred can
be on the same account.  Also, any student here automatically has access to 2
machines.  Possibly more.  Just a thought.

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