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From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
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--- "Matthew D. Fuller"
<fullermd@over-yonder.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:48:14AM -0800 I
> heard the voice of
> Danial Thom, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning
> for thinking so.
> 
> I can walk over to Cisco and buy a router that
> will push well over a
> billion packets per second.  FreeBSD 4.x can't
> even come within 3
> orders of magnitude of that.

Well thats just stupid. Clearly I'm referring to
general purpose operating systems, not custom
hardware platforms.

And I don't see any of your logic for thinking
that "newer FreeBSD versions" are faster. They're
not.

DT

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