Crossword-Solution: ALLOCATED 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The amounts allocated were almost invariably too small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with minimum work.

Common {unixism}s include: gratuitous use of `fork(2)'; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of UNIX libraries such as `stdio(3)' are supported elsewhere; reliance on {obscure} side-effects of system calls (use of `sleep(2)' with a 0 argument to clue the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never `free()'ing memory.

Address Allocation Before a local network can be connected to the Internet it must be allocated a unique IP address.

For example, if a campus requires two networks internally and has the 32,000 addresses beginning 128.174.X.X (a Class B address) allocated to it, the campus could allocate 128.174.5.X to one part of campus and 128.174.10.X to another.

The other thing to note is that once the domain is allocated to an administrative entity, that entity can freely allocate subdomains using what ever manner it sees fit.