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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) 
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Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 18:19:35 -0700
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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> > >There are definite and obvious advantages to being able to
> > >use a UNIX-using PC (or Sun SPARC) as a low-to-
> > >moderate-end router.  Making up stories about Cisco
> > >products in particular is not necessary to prove that
> > >point, and it doesn't really detract from the obvious
> > >disadvantages of using a PC instead of a dedicated router,
> > >both technical and non-technical.
> > 
> > This would be fine, except that many of the "obvious" advantages
> > are horse-nonsense (like the moving parts BS). The issue
> > is that unless your talking very high density or very high end,
> > the "advantages" are mostly propaganda.
> > 
> > your (ridiculous) allusion to the "Sun Sparc" is a clear indication
> > that you just dont get it. The advantages of a PC are the high power/
> > low cost ratio, modularity and availablilty of low cost subsystems, 
> > and mass production cost attributes of virtually all componants, as well
> > as the wide variety and functionality of inexpensive software, virtually
> > none of  which are attributes of the Sun Sparc.
> 
> I've pretty much stayed out of this battle even though it was very tempting
> :-)
> 
> For what very very little it is worth, I can clearly see both sides of this
> debate.

I don't see the merit of this discussion with respect to FreeBSD. You
guys ought to take to private e-mail. If the discussion persists
is easy for me to delete the thread related to this subject,i.e.,
you are losing the audience.

Had no idea that testosterone level  was a periodic function in 
this mailing list 8)

Honest guys, it is getting out of hand !!!

	Amancio