[6676] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Film at 11:00
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Jan 2 17:38:26 1997
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:28:31 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: avg@pluris.com, tli@jnx.com
Cc: alex@relcom.EU.net, nanog@merit.edu, pferguso@cisco.com
Tony wrote:
> Providing that there's a way to get a bunch of cheapo CPUs to do the
> job.
>True, but there's a complexity hit (which translates into a reliability hit
>and a development lag) from this approach.
Well, i do not think that using off-the-shelf cheapo CPUs debugged by
somebody else and tested in millions of applications, instead of
single-purpose ASICs qualifies as a reliability hit or a development lag :)
--vadim
