Comment Shortage my ass - misuse. (Score 1) 460
13.0.0.0/8 Xerox Corporation
15.0.0.0/8 Hewlett-Packard Company
16.0.0.0/8 Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation, then Compaq, then Hewlett-Packard.
17.0.0.0/8 Apple Inc.
19.0.0.0/8 Ford Motor Company
48.0.0.0/8 Prudential Securities Inc.
47.0.0.0/8 Bell-Northern Research Bell-Northern Research, now absorbed into Nortel.
I'll believe there's a shortage, when those companies explain to me why they need 16.7 million addresses. Each. With a publically reachable IP.