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Re: happy bday IGS-R


From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:55:03 +0200


At 09:02 16/02/01 -0700, John Starta wrote:
I believe the mailing lists were:

  cisco () spot colorado edu

  wellfleet-l () nstn ns ca

  P4200 () DEVVAX TN CORNELL EDU (or PROTEON () UXC CSO UIUC EDU)

Yes?

A winner!

-Hank


jas

At 08:43 AM 2/16/01 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
I remember when I did the first router scorecard.  Here is an excerpt:

                  Comparison of Multiprotocol Routers
                           Henry Nussbacher
                            November 1990
                             Version 1.7


                       +--------------+--------------+---------------+
 Multiprotocol         | cisco AGS+   | Wellfleet LN | Proteon p4200 |
 Router                | Rel. 8.1(14) | Rel. 5.40    | Rel. 8.3      |
                       +--------------+--------------+---------------+
 1. General            |              |              |               |
    - # of slots       | 9            | 4            | 7             |
    - Processor        | 30Mhz 68020  | 32MHz 68030  | ??Mhz 68020   |
    - Memory           | 4Mbyte       | 4Mbyte       | 2Mbyte        |
    - Updates via      | ROM, TFTP    | diskette,TFTP| diskette,TFTP |
    - Speed of bus     | 530Mb/sec (a)| 320Mb/sec    | 160Mb/sec     |

Trivia question: name the mailing list used at the time for each of these platforms. You need to know all 3 in order to win acclaim and fortune :-)

-Hank



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