GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

Jim Dixon writes:

> Gated IMO is a good thing. The problem is the OS/hardware that it
> runs on top of. I would dred having to install something that needs
> a hard drive to route packets in a light-out POP.

You don't need a hard drive. Use some of the money you saved by not
buying C***o to buy lots of DRAM. Boot from floppy.

Or even buy a flash-based hard drive emulator. Or combine the two
solutions.

I've been thinking about this. A while ago I saw a product that emulated
dual 1.4MB floppies in flash on an ISA card. This seemed like a good way
to start. Has anyone actually tried this? What flash product did you use?

/a