happy bday IGS-R
Hank Nussbacher
hank at att.net.il
Fri Feb 16 06:43:09 UTC 2001
At 17:53 15/02/01 -0500, Brent Sweeny wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:27:53PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 15 February 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > >
> > > An extra 10 if you have any printed manuals from that far back!
> > >
> >
> > Back then, ALL the manuals were printed. None of this funky
> > CDROM or download the page from the Cisco web site when your cisco
> > router isn't routing and you can't get to the cisco web site.
> >
> > And my favorite. You didn't have to pass a test to buy stuff
> > directly from Cisco. I got my first IGS-R for 50% off because
> > Cisco was competing against Proteon, and the Cisco sales person
> > was happy to sell me one.
>
>I remember way back then, when we were evaluating whether to buy Proteon
>or Cisco, scanning the hosts table (which still listed all the routers
>in the internet then, along with what KIND they were) to see what Cisco's
>market penetration was. it was growing fast enough that we thought they
>might stay in business. ;) it's still a good idea for cisco to remember
>proteon (and what they did wrong), though virtually no one from cisco today
>has ever heard of proteon, too bad--the lessons are still relevant, perhaps
>more than ever.
>
>and the entire manual set (hardware--all 3 models of routers--and
>software) all fit into one looseleaf manual. i still have mine from 6.x
>and 7.x, though i can't find earlier, darn.
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
> Brent Sweeny, Indiana University
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