From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 13:31:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17811 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17804 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id NAA20282; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:31:22 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC mag ref (good and bad) to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19981013114006.B287@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think they worded that in an ambiguous way: "WinNT surpassed FreeBSD." > That's what they wanted you to read, but I think what they actually meant > was, "WinNT's increase in performance with added memory surpassed > FreeBSD's increase in performance with added memory." That of course just > means that WinNT needed more RAM, while FreeBSD was perfectly happy with > what it had. Of course everything one reads in one of those magazines needs to be taken with a grain of salt (in some cases an entire salt lick!) It'd be interesting to see exactly how much money Microsoft spends in adveritising to that magazine. Case in point... I saw one magazine a few years back say that Packard Bell was the BEST overall computer to buy! Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message