From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 10:42:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29963 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29950 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA26233; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:44:50 GMT Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:44:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome To: "Ron G. Minnich" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more Mac vs BSD (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You think this is bad, I was looking at some websites yesterday and found a 'powered by a Mac' link, needless to say I followed it (whilst laughing) to this: http://prod01.apple.com/productinfo/datasheets/ss/aiss.html which really has to be seen to be beleived, particularly the quote near the top about Affordability. (... lowest-cost WWW server available today ... etc.. ) I took up the offer of contacting the webmaster, but haven't got a reply yet. On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > now what planet were these tests performed on? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:10:16 GMT > To: rminnich@sarnoff.com > Subject: more Mac vs BSD > > * In Apple's testing on a 10 Mbps Ethernet network, Open Transport > could sustain throughput of 9.6 Mbps. In contrast BSD could only > sustain 7 Mbps (and the venerable MacTCP could only do 2.3 Mbps). > That may not sound like a huge difference, but what about a 100 > Mbps Ethernet network? Open Transport has been shown to sustain 40 > Mbps on those networks - how well will BSD do? > > Steve Roome.