>There was a posting in relcom.comp.security some days ago: one man >told he opened the PIX box and guess what was inside? Yep, you are >right. The generic chinese PC motherboard with Pentium CPU. >Not just some Pentium-based piece of hardware, but _PC_ motherboard. >IDE controller and some other things were removed but.. So what's your point? >Then, did anybody try to take a closer look on the software? >I guess (if the assumption that PIX software is an IOS derivative is >right) porting IOS to the PC was not as hard as one might think It's not IOS, cisco bought the product (along with the company?) It's a real-time Unix-like kernel. -- Rodney van den Oever / 06 55868577 / PGP Key ID 0x0A6CCE53 'The moment at which a technology can be said to have 'matured' is that point at which it is first useful for pornographic purposes.' - Scott Tiger
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