If you did make that bet, you'd lose.
What you say of the PM3 is true of the PM-11, it was a fairly standard PC
motherboard and expansion cards and custom software.
All products since then have been fully designed from scratch. Open up a
PM3 and look at the backplanes. I don't think you will find them in any
PC. You could also take the CPU part number and look it up in a parts
catalog, you might find out some interesting aspects about the chip.
>Now, having an ENTIRE company to have to
>back it plus all the R&D costs + ongoing R&D costs + + + +.
>
...
>Livingston is a software company that loads their software onto fairly
>off the shelf hardware.
BZZZZT. Thank you for playing. Please come back and play again sometime.
>This of course is a simplified explanation, but the analogy still
>stands.
The analog is incorrect, period.
>I rather like the fact that livingston uses off the shelf
>parts (like $10 486/66 cpus etc) because it will allow them better
>profit for more R&D for BETTER products that beat those heat burner
>piece of crap Ascend/cisco boxes.
Now that much is much closer to the truth. If you think about it, another
reason is the tight focus and resistance to 'freeping creaturism'.
>now, a 10 PRI box with full duplex 100baseT would be quite nice :-)
That WOULD be nice.
JGT
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