Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:49:47 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) Message-ID: <199605241949.PAA01539@etinc.com>
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David G writes... >>Most of this is your own fault, for buying cheap unknown cards, >>discouraging and ridiculing commercial vendors for charging for >>things that are worth it and not giving away their work, and using >>software thats been slapped together by someone who doesnt have >>enough time to spend on it to make it really work well. > > Jordan's talking about other quality issues, like a poorly designed bus and >rail design that allows for cards to become unseated fairly easily and the >general lack of quality with 99.9% of the motherboards on the market. In this >case, I'm refering to poor Q/A at the factory (bad cache ram, etc), poor >BIOSes, etc. ...and then there's interoperability problems between various >cards with various motherboards. This is one advantage that Sun machines have >that PCs will never have - all the hardware is pretty much made by one vendor >and this cuts down the interoperability/reliability problems dramatically. >For those of us that come from minicomputer backgrounds (DEC PDP and VAX), >it's all too obvious to us where the shortcomings are in PC hardware. Granted...but it isnt an impossible task to find the good products. A router sitting in the corner isnt going to have cards pop out, and if your building/selling routers obviously you need to do you homework. We're talking about routing a few Mbits per second here...theres not a lot going on that the hardware has to be perfect. dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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