Subj : Re: Retro Mac BBS
To   : Errol Casey
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Dec 09 2024 11:28:43

  Re: Re: Retro Mac BBS
  By: Errol Casey to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 09 2024 12:18 pm

 > I remember when BNR/Nortel Switches used the Motorola chips. Just think thes
 > processors managed phone calls, and still do! I don't remember the specs now
 > that was many years ago!

I was a telecom manager in a former life, and I remember those systems well. Nortel started with their own chips. I was one of the first sites on the west coast to use one of their systems with a motorola CPU. They went up to a 68040, then went Intel. Instead of designing on bare iron, they ended up porting their environment to a series of applications and ran it under VxWorks.

If they didn't go belly-up, they could have done great things. Their SIP stuff was pretty great, I ended up networking 3 sites using SIP over my data network and retired an old MPLS network we had been using.
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