this is from k-state libraries, so you will have to log in to read it.
A 5.4-billion-transistor computer chip with 4096 neurosynaptic coresis is being made that is connected with an intrachip network.
It is a litte bit of an oudated article, and it has some specificity to Windows 2000 that I am not sure if applies to other operating systems, but other than that, the article seems to be very good.
"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client/server protocol that automatically provides an Internet Protocol (IP) host with its IP address and other related configuration information such as the subnet mask and default gateway. RFCs 2131 and 2132 define DHCP as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard based on Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), a protocol with which DHCP shares many implementation details."
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