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Re: Film at 11:00

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Jan 2 18:25:05 1997

Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 15:20:40 -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

>   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 :)

>Agreed that the part itself is correct.  However, unlike you, the rest of
>us tend to take perfect parts and make mistakes putting them together.  ;-)

Ah, i do a lot of mistakes.  Anyway, it's much easier to put together
debugged parts, than put together new silicon.  I've had more than
enough of that at nCUBE.

--vadim

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