In a message written on Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:21:37PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) there are technology factors we can't predict, e.g., > moore's law effects on hardware development
Some of that is predictable though. I'm sitting here looking at a heavily peered exchange point router with a rather large FIB. It has in it a Pentium III 700Mhz processor. Per Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III) it appears they were released in late 1999 to early 2000. This box is solidly two, perhaps three, and maybe even 4 doublings behind things that are already available at your local best buy off the shelf. Heck, this chip is slower than the original Xbox chip, a $400 obsolete game console. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org
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