Perfomance problems and main stream

[valette at crf.canon.fr (VALETTE Eric)]

>>>>> "aleksey" == Quality Quorum <qqi at world.std.com> writes:

aleksey> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, VALETTE Eric wrote:

>> >>>>> "Quality" == Quality Quorum <qqi at world.std.com> writes:

aleksey> Let consider simple router application as an example.

What is the relationship with the libchip discussion?

>> How mange Linux to work on MIPS, ALPHA, INTEL, PPC, ARM on various platform?

aleksey> Can Linux perform routing ? Yes.
aleksey> Is it competitive vs specialized routers ? No

>> Same for VxWorks?

aleksey> Can stock VxWorks IP stack and drivers perform routing ? Yes
aleksey> Can you build good router this way ? No

As far as I know, Cisco has been using VxWorks and also a scaled
down version of SCO Unix in their routers???

So I'm sceptical concerning what you say. An in any case
I do not understand what routing has to do with a clean 
processor and BSP API (other calls it a HAL)  definition

-- eric