> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 patrick@value.net wrote:
>
> > If it takes a 68050 to do what your 386/40 does, who really cares, in the
> > final analysis? End users for the most part do not care what chips you are
> > running, or how streamlined the OS is. They care about price, performance
> > and features. Livingston is definitely a good contendor(sp?) in price,
> > and is performs well in the tasks that it is suited for. Cisco has, and
> > will probably always have you beat in features and scalability.
>
> First off, the crisco 2500 series use 68030 chips and the 7000 uses a
> 68040 chip. So I don't see them using better chips...
Who said they did? I was just making the point that from my perspective, I
don't care whether a router uses a 68050, a 386/40, a MIPS-4000, any of
the various and sundry RISC based processors, or Z-80, as long as it
does it's job well at a decent price.
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