|Once upon a time Jonah Yokubaitis shaped the electrons to say...
|>oh really? You think that AMD cpu and 72pin ram and siemens
|>controllers and analog devices DSPs are something special? Its the
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|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.
Again, my point was missed. Laying out the components is R&D.
Let me repeat again.
LAYING OUT THE COMPENENTS IS R&D.
|>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
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|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.
I doubt a 486/66 could outperform even the lowest end PPC601
Jonah
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