From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org> ...

Umm, when Cisco bought IBM's router division, didn't they take on the support contracts for those routers?

The IBM 2210 had a lot of Proteon history...

Well the Cisco had a lot of Proteon in it too. You could take a Proteon chassis pull out the processor, slap in a Cisco processor and use Proteons serial and ethernet cards, boot and run. Both Cisco and Proteon used the same multibus and bought interface boards from a third party vendor if I remember it right. Walt