> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Damien T. wrote:
> > > The company has an excess Livingston IRX-111 router with 16 Meg of RAM
> > > available for $1050 including UPS shipping. We may also have an extra
> > To compete with that... I have a bunch of Cisco 2501s (1 AUI ethernet,
> > two T1/E1 serials, 2MB of RAM, licences for IP and IPX, IOS 11.0)
> > available, from a company liqudation (corporate WAN).
> > $900 US each, including shipping within US.
>
> I notice that the IRX has 16 megs of ram. Why does it need 14 megs more
> of ram to do approximately the same thing?
An IRX doesn't *need* the 16 megs of memory to do the same job as a Cisco
with 2 MB. He says it *has* it. You will find that Cisco is in fact much
more memory hungry than Livingston products.
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