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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated...
To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 07:01:12 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <19970829011410.35329@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Aug 29, 97 01:14:10 am
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Peter Korsten wrote:
> 
[snip....other information about NT robustness]
> At one time, I was forced to switch off the system because I
> accidently opened 1200 Explorers and the damn thing just wouldn't
> crash. :)

	ftp.cdrom.com uses 1 FreeBSD box to serve 150GB of ftp dat
	each day to the Internet.

	MS uses 44 NT boxes to serve 350GB of http data to the Internet
	each day over 8 DS3 (45Mbps) lines.  this information is courtesy
	http://www.microsoft.com/syspro/technet/tnnews/features/mscom.htm
	dated may 8th 1997.

	http is more communications intensive than ftp.  and microsoft claims
	that their systems have a lot of unused capacity to handle spikes.
	nonetheless the ratio of 44:1 speaks for itself.

	a microsoft employe on the FreeBSD mailing lists asked me about
	these numbers a couple months ago.  he claimed that they are 
	out-of-date.  i asked for new numbers.  never heard back from him.
	are you still there?  are new numbers available?

			FreeBSD		ms
	computers	1		44
	ram		1/2 GB		19.2GB
	disk		142GB		2048GB+

	FreeBSD?  you *cant* buy good this good ;)
jmb