6 Dec
2011
6 Dec
'11
10:40 a.m.
From: Jules Richardson
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:29 AM
Now you've got me wondering about various old
routers with console
interfaces - can they conceivably be classed as computers and hence be
thrown into the discussion? :-)
Are you talking about things like the early cisco Systems products? Those
used SUN-1 boards as their processor, which was a re-purposing of a generic
workstation processor. (A friend of mine designed the board and hired Andy
Bechtolsheim to build it. :-) Later boards like the CSC-2 and CSC-3 (another
friend of mine) were more specialized, but could have run something more
generic than IOS.
Just sayin'.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/