1. The GB-100 used a 8Mb DOC (disk on chip) from M-Systems. The DOC on is a 16pin package that is socketed on the system board.
2. The current GTA firewall appliances use a 16Mb compact flash. The access to the compact flash is via the IDE interface while the DOC of the GB-100 is accessed via a special driver, not the IDE subsystem.
3. Although the GB-100 has an IDE interface it uses the micro 2.5" drive interface. You'd have to have a 2.5 IDE interface to a standard IDE interface to use the GB-Flash adapter board.
4. Things change rapidly in the computer technology business. GTA tries hard to provide support for our existing customer base, however when we have to start making compromises to provide new features for older hardware (with less features and capabilities) it only limits what we can do on new platforms. I think you'll find this is the case with most manufactures in this business. More often than not most will not even attempt to provide new features on older hardware.
5. The GB-100 was a good system although a bit under powered by today's standards. All hardware becomes obsolete, but that doesn't mean it won't function as it was designed. It's just that today's users have other/more needs that didn't exist when the GB-100 was developed. Just because the GB-100 can no longer run the most current versions of GTA's software doesn't make it a paperweight. Does it not still have the same functionality?
I think if you check the hardware offerings at the time when the GB-100 was designed, you'd be hard pressed to see if those systems can run newest software from their manufacturers. You might even find that many of those companies don't even exist today.
Question
1. Do people throw away their NetScreen appliances when a new version of ScreenOS is released but won't run on their appliance because their ASIC is an older version?
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