From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 17 12:37:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90D614C32 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12AIu1-000BCx-00; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:37:29 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA17501; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:37:29 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:37:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: "van Rooij, Guido" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft go it right ;-) In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000117131053.019b3d30@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Brett Glass wrote: >Yep. And it may be that, if you're running the wrong OS or the wrong >browser, things will be slower. This appears to be true of the >microsoft.com Web site: when I access it with Netscape and IE >side by side, I often see dramatic differences in response >times from their server. Could this simply be attributed to the explorer code being more tightly linked to the OS? And M$ knowing all the back doors to squeeze performance out of their own OS system calls? -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message