Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:30:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bigby Findrake <bigby@shiva.eu.org> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: mike@argos.org, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908181329120.20166-100000@shiva.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19990818201702.DC37214FF0@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > I'd sure hope so... Let's face it -- even though FreeBSD is (in my > > opinion) the most "robust" out of the bunch, the x86 architecture isn't > > going to win any awards for performance.... Cheap, yes. Easy, yes. > > Works for the most part, yes. But it's still based off of the idea that > > we need to be backwards-compatible with the late 1700's. The Alpha port > > of FBSD is A Good Thing (I'm hoping to try it out this weekend on a couple > > of the Alpha machines I have available for playing with), but the high-end > > boxes are pretty pricey. You can find multi-processor SPARC machines > > being practically given away by companies who don't know what they're > > capable of, not to mention several other platforms. > > > thisis incorrect. the intel processors knock the snot out of > sparc in inteeger performance. take a look at the hint benchmark for > example. the benchmark is in the ports tree. > > the alpha on the other hand knocks the intel flat on the matt. > > jmb Somehow I fail to notice how any of this pertains to FreeBSD security. Can someone please enlighten me or, barring that, perhaps move this conversation to a more appropriate location. /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ "What reason weaves, by passion is undone." -- Alexander Pope finger bigby@shiva.eu.org for my pgpkey e-mail bigby@pager.shiva.eu.org to page me /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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