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Re: Wired Q: Embedded NT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu May 14 23:33:33 1998

Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 06:27:03 +0200
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
Cc: james@wired.com, freund@wired.com

 >From: Jesse Freund <freund@wired.com>
 >i'm working on a piece about nt-embedded and i have a couple of questions.
 >i'm hoping you might be able to hook me up with a smart network operator or
 >someone else in the know or perhaps you know.  basically, i'm curious why
 >the hell someone would want a version of nt embedded in a switch or router?
 >and who provides the custom solutions nt-embedded is meant to replace?

Go read some competitor's mag:
http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-04-1998/ncw-04-nextten.html

Bottom line: big mistake if this is to run in the 1998/1999 time frame.

-Hank



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