Re: [tlug] Unix's 40th Birthday

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:
> .. In general industrial strength boxes such as switches and routers rarely if ever run real OSs as they get in the way, waste resources and provide mostly unneeded services. What they need are minimal kernels providing basic interrupt servicing, time slicing, etc.
>   

Well that is the conventional wisdome.  The Arista[1] switches don't
seem to take this approach, and they even run Linux ;)

Edward

1. http://www.aristanetworks.com/