Subj : Re: Minix
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 03:00 pm

  Re: Re: Minix
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Apr 18 2024 01:20 pm

 DM> I worked at Broadcom for 16 years and a large part of that time was in
 DM> charge of the TruManage (Deuce is actually the one that came up with that
 DM> name) project that competed with Intel AMT/vPro for embedded system
 DM> management solutions (i.e. ASF, DASH, SMASH, IPMI/DCMI, etc.) for client
 DM> systems and low-end servers. Intel was our biggest competitor and they
 DM> were able to use system main memory and hide their die-cost in the rest of
 DM> the chipset, so we were at a disadvantage on Intel platforms, but had
 DM> virtually all the AMD platform marketshare for a long time. Intel also
 DM> played dirty in the standards body (DMTF), using their position of power
 DM> over their customers to win votes and vote-down enhancements to management
 DM> standards they had abandoned. The Broadcom system management controller
 DM> (AKA "BMC") was integrated into our network controllers (BCM57xxx) and was
 DM> a very fun embedded supervisory system with a lot of power and control
 DM> over the entire system.

That's cool about Deuce coming up with that name.  And I'm not really surprised about Intel trying to use their position to play dirty with the standards body.

Nightfox
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