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Re: happy bday IGS-R

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Starta)
Fri Feb 16 11:10:05 2001

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:02:27 -0700
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
From: John Starta <john@starta.org>
Cc: Brent Sweeny <sweeny@indiana.edu>,
	Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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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?

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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