Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:48:01 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611182048.PAA00745@etinc.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
J. Greco writes... >Tony, > >> You're right. Market cap of $36B and they're not important... more >> installed machines than FreeBSD and they're not important... Good thing >> Microsoft isn't important either... > >Since the discussion was about how fast UNIX can route packets, Dennis is >absolutely right... they are not important because by your own statement, >IOS is not UNIX. Neither is Microsoft because I don't recall Microsoft >releasing any UNIX variant OS's recently. > >And I don't particularly care if Gates _did_ try to assimilate UNIX into >NT by decree of equivalency :-) NT ain't UNIX. > >(Actually, I could have sworn that I heard that IOS was developed with >a UNIX model in mind (obviously not for the routing parts, but...)) there is certainly "unix" origins in a lot of their stuff...and with the Cisco company...the IPX gateway acquisition, their investment in BSDI...their own unix products... But it has little to do with how fast a general release OS can switch packets... Dennis
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199611182048.PAA00745>