[15017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Bowie)
Thu Feb 5 11:17:30 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 09:57:53 -0500
From: David Bowie <dbowie@bbnplanet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
>
> BBN Butterflys were one of the worst pieces of hardware ever built.
>
Pardon my ruffled feathers, but IMHO this is not so! The Butterfly was
a fine example of a massively parallel computer. It was, unfortunately,
seldom deployed with the full complement of 128 processors.
The only problem with the architecture was the "flexible-bus" technology
which made maintenance a bit unweildy.
BTW - I believe that the C/30 probably has the best uptime record of any
packet processor. Many are documented as up 100% for years.
Anybody who has been online for more than 5 years probably had their
packets passed by them.
<off my soapbox and back into my cave>
--
David J. Bowie
GTE Internetworking
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