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... Twas the night before start-up and all through the net,
not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet.
The engineers rattled their cards in despair,
hoping a bad chip would blow with a flare.
...
... Gateway to PAD;
not one bit was dropped; no checksum was bad.
At last he was finished and wearily sighed
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