"Mark" wrote in
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Wrong. FabricOS 1.x, 2.x and 3.x are based on vxworks, but the 4.x
series (for the silkworm 12k and 3900's) is a realtime linux. It
works really well, too.

Wow! I never knew that :-) Wonder if it was a technical or financial
reason to switch ?

Technical - they ran out of features on vxworks and needed something they
could customize to their liking. Unfortunately, it comes at the price of
slightly longer boot times.

I'll have to have another look at the Brocades ... chances are slim at
the mo as it's all McData where I am.

Don't mix

Don't get any funny ideas

So no getting Quake to run then ? :-)

I think it's an ARM chip in those boxes and getting a Linux/ARM binary of
Quake might be hard

The 100 or 200 mhz cpu (3900 or 12000) should be enough, though

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/Jesper Monsted
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