Blog Archive: January 1970
Will people get tired of the hype from the 'big 3'? (Cisco, 3Com, Bay)
On March 1st, 1997 In Technology
Have you read all of the recent hype-ware from the 'big 3'? (Cisco, 3Com, Bay)
Find anything in there you could actually buy or use?
Not me. These companies are all hardware vendors, not software vendors.
I wonder sometimes if they need hype to push boxes.
What about Microsoft?
Don't you get tired of hearing that? I know I do. It reminds me
Is there COBOL in your future?
On March 1st, 1997 In Technology
I read an interesting article (no doubt written by someone at IBM)
that shipments of IBM 370 architecture machines has never slowed down
(now called S/390). I remember writing PL/1, COBOL and BAL for those
giant fossils. I also remember seeing an emulation running on a
486 laptop that ran faster than the original machine.
Somehow I'm not
Bridges begot routers begot switches...
On March 1st, 1997 In Technology
So why *did* we just toss out all bridges in favor of routers just
to put bridges (switches) back in?
Is switching mostly hype?
I don't really think switching is all hype, but it does seem like everyone
on the planet is making a layer 2 switch. And most are rather
Why can't I control my network?
On March 1st, 1997 In Technology
Have you noticed that SNMP statistics are not very interesting? Me
too. I want network events. And only interesting network event need
apply.
Why don't more servers send SNMP traps? It seems like the only thing
which will cause a trap on my network is the T1 going down. Thats like
the little red light on my dashboard lighting up when a