From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 23 17:19:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7216214F30 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA22622; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:18:47 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19990623163928.E581@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:52:25PM -0700 <19990623084919.R76907@freebie.lemis.com> <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:19:37 -0400 To: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:39 PM +0930 6/23/99, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Tuesday, 22 June 1999 at 23:52:25 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> [someone said] >>| [someone said] >>|> Ok, so let's follow Microsoft's industry-leading documentation >>|> standards. >>| >>| He said "commercial", not "toy". >> >> Given that I've just spent a very unhappy couple of weeks >> demonstrating that this "toy" you're referring to outperforms >> us by a factor of anything from 3 to 10 on a range of basic >> benchmarks, > > Really? This is so different from anything I've heard that I'm > astounded. How about some details? I also found Mike's comment on performance interesting. I assume he's talking about system performance, and not documentation performance. Was this when testing WinNT-2000, or just the latest service pack on WinNT 4? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message