That's what we've been asking SCO for the past 7 years.

P=I^2 R

So, for the same resistance, the heat is proportional to the square of the current.

As a whole bunch of posts above you confirm, Cisco definitely uses QNX in their largest routers. They also use FPGAs in switches and routers, in addition to ASICs I'm sure. High-end FPGAs certainly are convenient for what Cisco wants to do, especially with the ability to reconfigure them on the fly into an arbitrary special-purpose packet filtering/routing engine.

Yeah, Palm just has to make the Pre look like an iPod to iTunes. Eventually Apple may run out of things to use to differentiate the Pre from a "real" iPod without breaking real iPods.