[5513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Oct 21 18:36:51 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:16:15 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: alex@relcom.eu.net, nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
In-Reply-To: <199610211122.HAA08915@panix.com> from "Alexis Rosen" at Oct 21, 96 07:22:55 am
> alex@relcom.eu.net writes:
> > and WHY have I to pay 3,500$ for the 32Mb ram if this RAM costs
> > 600$ on the free market???).
>
> Dunno for sure about the 4xxx, but the 7xxx use standard SIMMs, and Cisco
> has even qualified some manufacturers' parts. Oddly enough, they have
> also *disqualified* some parts that you'd think were exactly the same. I
> don't know the details there. The sales types obviously don't like to
> talk about it, but you really *can* get $12k of 7500 memory for $800. And
> they'll even agree that it works, if you talk to the right cisco folks.
>
> /a
$400 now...
Avi
