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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:39:28 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, hm@hcs.de, nick.hibma@jrc.it, dfr@nlsystems.com, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c))
Message-ID:  <19990623163928.E581@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:52:25PM -0700
References:  <19990623084919.R76907@freebie.lemis.com> <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Tuesday, 22 June 1999 at 23:52:25 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>>>> In case FreeBSD wants to enter commercial environments, we have to behave
>>>> like behaving in commercial environments.
>>>
>>> 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?

> and has hundreds of developer-oriented books on the shelves in every
> major bookstore in the developed world, I think your position is
> perhaps slightly less than tenable here.

If that's a given, yes.

> But Mark illustrates my point perfectly; developers don't write
> documentation.  That's what camp followers are for.  So far, we have
> the ones that whine about the loot and throw mud at us when we march
> too slowly, but not enough of the ones that sew our banners, mend our
> pots and pans, or teach our version of the gospel to the heathens we
> subdue.

You can never get enough of them.

Greg
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