From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 18 12:42:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10310 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10302 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA00745; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:48:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:48:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199611182048.PAA00745@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: Joe Greco From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Cc: isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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