Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 18:19:35 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis), smd@cesium.clock.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) Message-ID: <199605270119.SAA00378@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 May 1996 19:04:12 CDT." <199605270004.TAA28410@brasil.moneng.mei.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
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