Worst design decisions?
David Lesher
wb8foz at nrk.com
Thu Sep 18 12:57:11 UTC 2003
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking
> about short sighted design considerations. I was curious if any of you
> had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about. I'll start
> with a couple.
1) The slide lock on transceiver cables.
2) Intel's+IBM's "640K" wall.
3) IDE addressing standards. (We've been through the 528 MB,
2.1 GB, 4.2 GB, 8.4 GB caps.... what's next?)
2 & 3 are basically failures to look ahead far enough. We have
lots of those. Some would say IPV4 is one, but I'll give them
a little more credit than most....
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