From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 10:53:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00469 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adam.adonai.net (adam.adonai.net [207.8.83.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00436 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leec@adam.adonai.net) Received: from localhost (leec@localhost) by adam.adonai.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA16991; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:52:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:52:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" To: Stephen Roome cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Stephen Roome wrote: =>> So I'd bet NT saw all of the memory *and* was able to use it. We =>> just couldn't. => =>Perhaps a more reasonable explanation would be that the NT =>kernel and most of the NT applications are such huge bloated =>pieces of software suffering so much freeping creaturism that =>well over half the memory that they have allocated for =>themselves is unnessary, not used and therefore if the data =>stored in it gets corrupted it doesn't matter and hence it =>doesn't crash. (at least not for that reason anyway!) => =>[Still I'd not have considered NT as either a competitor for =>FreeBSD, and illustrious must surely be sarcasm!] The entire NT reference was sarcasm! I'd rather use DOS than windoze! ;) Of course, I'd rather use FreeBSD than either! =>> My first FreeBSD box was a converted NT (3.xx) box which labored =>> under only 8 users. Under fbsd I tested a max of 70+ users. =>> (p200/128meg for those who care). => =>That's overkill, you must live somewhere hardware is cheap! This is what I was told was needed for a windoze nt box running an isp with 8 dial-up lines. It was a copy of a machine I saw at an operating isp which ran like your average windoze box (read: like a dog). Actually, that's a lie. The isp box was, if I recall, a p133. I figured my p200 would make it acceptable... And, no, the hardware *wasn't* cheap! It is now, but wasn't then... Lee