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Re: Microslosh vision of the future

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Aug 12 09:56:32 2002

From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Alif The Terrible" <measl@mfn.org>,
	"gg" <ggregory@affinitas.net>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>, "blitz" <blitz@macronet.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:49:48 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Thus spake "Alif The Terrible" <measl@mfn.org>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, gg wrote:
> >
> > Guess my home P.C. will no longer be an intel platform......hello mighty
SPARC
>
> I guess you didn't actually read this, did you?  It makes no difference what
> you use at home, if that machine can't talk to the rest of the world.

1. There will be CPU vendors that won't require Palladium-signed code
2. There will be OSes that won't require Palladium-signed code
3. There will be applications that won't require Palladium-signed code
4. There will be IETF protocols that won't require Palladium-signed code
5. The Net will not require Palladium-signed code

and most importantly:

6. This article is completely incorrect on how Palladium will work.

S


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