From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 16 09:11:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03072 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-112-25.bellatlantic.net [151.197.112.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03064 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01964; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:11:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) X-Authentication-Warning: minos.dyn.ml.org: dominus owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:11:04 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@localhost Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: Tim Gerchmez cc: higginsj@iname.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615222144.007fea10@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 01:13 AM 6/16/98 -0400, James wrote: > > >They lived in /usr but they did several very complex integrations in the > >process of running and wrote out large temporary files containing > >results and partial results that resided in /var and /tmp until the app > >terminated. > > > >Problem is that even on an RS/6000 with 512 meg of RAM and SCSI disks > >they took days or as much as a month to complete one job. > > > >Meanwhile, the machine is still cranking on with it's daily duties. > > Precisely what I love most about FreeBSD. Try that on Win NT and > everything will crawl like a snail (both the scientific app and the other > daily duties, or if you're lucky it's either/or). > Try it on a PC and it crawls. Dual PPro 200 and similar hardware took almost double the time. The PPro was using Red Hat Linux. James > with NT server, and that's about it. They'll do somewhat better with > company intranets, due to lack of people who know Unix, and lack of need > for as much power. My company intranet uses a mix of UNIX and NT Server. Once again, everything has it's purpose. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message