There is agreat deal of misunderstanding of peer to peer networking in the the so called networking community. Your article about this subject adds even more confusion.
Peer to peer networking was one of the first network architecture to be used inthe market. It started around the mid eighties and one of its pioneers was Fox Research who became 10Net later.
There are two main networking architectures in the market today: Client-Server ( Netware ), peer-to-peer (Win9x/Me, NT/Win2k, Lantastic ). Therefore, peer-to-peer networking can support more than 10 stations with a network OS like NT and Win2000.