Posts by fghdfgh

First, layer three switches use ASICs for most functions. That allows them to perform switching functions much faster than generic x86-based servers. which rely much more heavily on their CPUs and software. Second, network engineering is a very complex field. You have to study it full-time and work with the technology full-time to become proficient. I wouldn't just take a developer, who may be good at OOP, Java, and so on, and ask him to configure our BGP peering relationship with our ISP, for example. You'd have to spend weeks training them in BGP before setting them loose. And that defeats the whole purpose of not using network engineers, because network engineers are already trained in things like BGP! That's one technology but there are hundreds more. I can't believe this guy was hired on as a "technology director" because he doesn't really seem to really understand networking.

Patents are only good for 20 years. So, it's perfectly legal for Qualcomm and Microsoft to emulate Intel's 32-bit architecture. I bet that's why they're only supporting 32-bit processes on the emulator. The 64-bit instructions are still patented, as are SSE. So, they can't add support for those, yet.