Re: [OT] Old kit (was:Re: IP4 Space)

2010-03-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Same is true of MIPS and PowerPC, though.  There are far more MIPS chips in > routers than ever saw desktop use in SGI workstations; and while it might take > a little while for Cisco's PowerPC driven routers' CPU's to outnumber all the > PowerMacs our there, one day it will happen. MIPS are now

Re: [OT] Old kit

2010-03-26 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 03/26/2010 10:16 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Wednesday 24 March 2010 05:24:39 pm Michael Dillon wrote: >>> For comparison look at the z-80 CPU which powered the early desktop >>> computers. When the IBM PC came out, people thought that th

Re: [OT] Old kit (was:Re: IP4 Space)

2010-03-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2010 05:24:39 pm Michael Dillon wrote: For comparison look at the z-80 CPU which powered the early desktop computers. When the IBM PC came out, people thought that the Intel 8086 would make the Z-80 obsolete. But it didn't.

[OT] Old kit (was:Re: IP4 Space)

2010-03-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 05:24:39 pm Michael Dillon wrote: > For comparison look at the z-80 CPU which powered the early desktop > computers. When the IBM PC came out, people thought that the Intel 8086 > would make the Z-80 obsolete. But it didn't. The Z-80 just disappeared > into all sorts of e