happy bday IGS-R

Sun Feb 18 06:55:03 UTC 2001

At 09:02 16/02/01 -0700, John Starta wrote:
>I believe the mailing lists were:
>
>   cisco at spot.colorado.edu
>
>   wellfleet-l at nstn.ns.ca
>
>   P4200 at DEVVAX.TN.CORNELL.EDU (or PROTEON at UXC.CSO.UIUC.EDU)
>
>Yes?

A winner!

-Hank

>jas
>
>At 08:43 AM 2/16/01 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>>I remember when I did the first router scorecard.  Here is an excerpt:
>>
>>                   Comparison of Multiprotocol Routers
>>                            Henry Nussbacher
>>                             November 1990
>>                              Version 1.7
>>
>>
>>                        +--------------+--------------+---------------+
>>  Multiprotocol         | cisco AGS+   | Wellfleet LN | Proteon p4200 |
>>  Router                | Rel. 8.1(14) | Rel. 5.40    | Rel. 8.3      |
>>                        +--------------+--------------+---------------+
>>  1. General            |              |              |               |
>>     - # of slots       | 9            | 4            | 7             |
>>     - Processor        | 30Mhz 68020  | 32MHz 68030  | ??Mhz 68020   |
>>     - Memory           | 4Mbyte       | 4Mbyte       | 2Mbyte        |
>>     - Updates via      | ROM, TFTP    | diskette,TFTP| diskette,TFTP |
>>     - Speed of bus     | 530Mb/sec (a)| 320Mb/sec    | 160Mb/sec     |
>>
>>Trivia question: name the mailing list used at the time for each of these 
>>platforms.  You need to know all 3 in order to win acclaim and fortune :-)
>>
>>-Hank