HOW the components are laidout is more important than what the components
are. I could give someone a bag with all of the pieces, off the shelf,
and tell them to build a comm server with it. That doesn't mean you'd
get a PM.
>SOFTWARE that makes the PM3/PM2 special. I would bet that livingston
>could port ComOs to a RISC platform and make the current x86 platform
Actually the AMD chips we use *outspec* more expensive RISC chips. We
were considering RISC, but we discovered that for the same cost we can
get higher performace with the CISC chips we use.
>Its the SOFTWARE! (Did I say this before?)
The software is NOT everything. The software is only part of it. We
could probably port ComOS onto a competing product, but I doubt it would
perform as well because our HW design is a very important part of the
equation.
Software without good HW is meaning less, so is the reverse.
-MZ
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