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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.... -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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