From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 14:58:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF121535A for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ppp-207-193-10-207.hstntx.swbell.net [207.193.10.207]) by mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06002; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:58:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA03415; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:59:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 16:59:22 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: David Schwartz , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mindcruft ... Message-ID: <19990505165921.B2532@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <000401be9729$59dad700$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: ; from unknown@riverstyx.net on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:34:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 5, 1999, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > Well, I figure that's the only thing one of these types of benchmarks > *could* measure. You're taking identical hardware and seeing what each OS > can do, without considering what's best for that OS. The way I figure it, similar hardware isn't nearly as important to companies/consumers as similar price. Spend $2000 on an NT system and $2000 on a FreeBSD system and then compare. Let's see the results when you get back. -- Chris Costello The day Microsoft make something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message