From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 17 10:28:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27053 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:28:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27047 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr14.etinc.com (dialup-usr14.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA05601; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:31:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:31:16 -0500 Message-Id: <199603171831.NAA05601@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Brian Tao From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Microsoft "Get ISDN"? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, dennis wrote: >> >> I still find it terribly interesting that people will spend a fortune >> on horsepower of questionable necessity (like P6s and 166Mhz cpus to >> run a terminal server) but want to use $30. async cards for the most >> important bottleneck in their network. > > People will always be doing this because the level of knowledge >required to make intelligent hardware purchases is beyond the average >consumer. I agree with you, an ISP who sticks a bunch of high-speed >serial ports connected to a bunch of Bitsurfrs to provide ISDN access >is just asking for trouble. However, for a workstation or PC at home, >a serially-connected ISDN TA will work just fine. Heck, I can even >connect a 28.8k modem to the POTS jack on my Bitsurfr as a dialin port >and keep my analog voice line free. Its more the misallocation of funds and focus than it is a "problem"...P133s with work fine but if you've only got a 56kbs line its overkill...spend a couple extra bucks and bandwidth management and tuning features and less on raw horsepower. Although it is very true that Intel and Motorola have saved the butts of many products on the market by making processors so fast that they mask the inefficiencies of the subsystems (ie LINUX). You can make a slow driver faster by upgrading your CPU. Couldn't do that in the old days, tho.... :-) Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.