[c-nsp] Supervisor 32 Compact Flash

[David J. Hughes]

On 12/08/2006, at 6:01 AM, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:


> When you're talking interrupts/second, not SPECINT, the performance
> shoe is rather on the other foot.  :-)

I'm talking control plane not forwarding plane.  In that context  
we're talking about processing BGP updates etc so the shoe is  
actually on the correct foot  ;-)


> You're probably not playing WoW on your router, and you're hopefully
> not using commodity desktop computing platforms in your backbone.

Not sure I understand this comment at all.  PowerPC _HAS_ been used  
in commodity desktop equipment.  It's not used any more because for  
various reasons it wasn't good enough.

My point is that neither of these chips is application specific so  
you are looking at which general purpose CPU to use in your RP.  The  
design of IOS is becoming more UNIX like all the time.  We know that  
x86 is quite capable in that area.  They are cheaper, faster, cooler,  
and much more readily available.  Not that I'm an Intel bigot (I'm  
using a G4 based notebook to type this email), it just looks like a  
strange direction to me.

And - I don't think this is the correct forum for a PPC vs x86  
architectural debate but I'm happy to chat in private email.



David
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