Understanding Broadcast Effects

Understanding Broadcast Effects
Just in case anyone is still confused about broadcasts, consider this analogy: Suppose you worked
in an office where there was a telephone system that included a broadcast capability. Every time
the phone rang, everyone would have to answer it and listen to who the broadcast transmission
was aimed at—“Hello, is that the Domain Name Server?” How long would it be before all these
interruptions caused you to throw the phone out of the window? That’s what broadcasts do to PCs.
Each interruption causes single-tasking operating systems to stop what they are doing—writing to
the hard drive, processing, and so on—and answer the phone