From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 14 23:16:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA02172 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from porsta.cs.Helsinki.FI (root@porsta.cs.Helsinki.FI [128.214.48.124]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02166 Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux.cs.Helsinki.FI (linux.cs.Helsinki.FI [128.214.48.39]) by porsta.cs.Helsinki.FI (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA12748; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:16:21 +0300 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:16:13 +0300 (EET DST) From: Linus Torvalds To: dyson@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Unices are created equal, but ... In-Reply-To: <199604142207.RAA00341@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, John S. Dyson wrote: > > How's about maintaining competition, and working to make the respective > U**X clone better competitively. Competition helps keep each party > honest!!! I'd be nervous about the benchmarks used. It's too easy to optimize for a specific set of circumstances, and getting blind to the "larger picture". But with a reasonable selection of benchmarks, this might not be a bad idea. Linus