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At 09:27 AM 10/8/98 -0600, Me wrote: >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> Balderdash. The cost of a few SIMMs in routers pales beyond the market >> damage that comes from not being able to get where your customers want to >> go. >> >> Protecting provider's hardware budgets is not part of a registry's job. >> >I don't think the cost of having enough memory was the issue, it was the >physical ability of the router's cpu to handle updating the routing table >with that many routes... The key word is "was". Since then, Moore's Law has taken us to routers that can handle the load better. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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