[84340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Katrina Network Damage Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Sep 11 20:52:24 2005
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:20:47 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ops.lists@gmail.com
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11/09/05, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
>=20
> In fact, I would much rather allow access to pretty much anything
> else rather than a powerful general-purpose computer.
>=20
My microwave has a bigger and faster processor than the one that the
Apollo lunar modules had.
In the timelines people are looking at for v6 - or faster, if you
believe Moore's law - you're going to see "general purpose computers"
in lots of stuff that dont necessarily have a monitor and keyboard
attached..
And think of the next generation networkers mantra of "convergence" ..=20
--srs
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
