🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8p9I7.517985$j65.128197270@news4.rdc1.on.home.com>, Yousuf
Khan <bbbl67@nospam.yahoo.com.spam> writes
>I took apart one of these things one day, just to see what circuitry they
>have inside them. I found an AMD 80186 embedded processor inside. If you
>don't know what an 80186 (or a 186 for short) is, then you're probably not
>alone. This was a processor that is an x86 processor, just like the original
>8086 and 8088 processors. It came after the 8086-generation, and just before
>the 286 generation. It was never used inside PCs, it was always used as an
>embedded processor.
Beg to differ, it's usually used as an embedded chip, but, you could buy
PC boards that used it, only ever seen them once at a radio rally,
clearly marked as a 186 board with 16 bit ISA slots.
> Intel and its partner at the time, AMD, sold all kinds
>of these things in the early 80's. I don't know why they chose such an
>ancient generation of processors to power these boxes, but it's likely
>because of cost. Though the 186 and its packaging is likely new, and not
>just something that was sitting on a shelf for 20 years, the technology has
>not really been updated in those years. It doesn't look like this thing is
>upto the task of handling routing jobs, and it just dies. The problems
>become even worse when you start using DHCP or PPPoE as the IP assigning
>protocol from the ISP to you, because these protocols require constant
>supervision by the router, and it just adds to the tasks that this router
>already has to perform.
>
Depends on the surrounding hardware, they would certainly be up to the
job of overseeing some dedicated net hardware but if it was doing all
the work itself I'd consider another make.
>Plus, online games generally don't work through a NAT firewall. You should
>get a Linux box setup that has special online gaming modules for its
>built-in firewalling software. I never had a lockup problem with a Linux
>box.
>
>    Yousuf Khan
>
>

-- 
Clint Sharp