Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:31:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, "Mr. BOFH" <icerbofh@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Fire Engine??
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:

> And not to dis my Alma Mater but I tend think the whole TOE idea is a
> lose. I used to think otherwise, while I was a Sun employee, and Sun
> employee #1 pointed out to me that CPUs and memory were getting faster
> more quickly than the TOE type answers could come to market.  He was
> right then and he seems to still be right.

I guess TCP offloading is a good way to stub your TOE ;)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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