From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 11: 7: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA7D1543A for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27057; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:06:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Terry Lambert , David Schwartz , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? In-Reply-To: <19990714173239.A302@palmerharvey.co.uk> 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 Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:07:24AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > I can give you a list of things from my experience (not a > > webmaster.com employee). Threads, SMP, NFS, and purify. I can't think of > > anything NT does better than any unix though. :) > > Run Microsoft products? Ok, I should have said, "anything _worthwhile_ ..." But seriously folks, the smiley at the end meant that was a joke. If someone is holding a gun to your head making you run some kind of windows app (and some of the stuff in our office is windows) then NT is the way to do it. If I were the one making the decisions I'd choose just about anything other than NT, but I don't get paid to make (the big) decisions, I get paid to implement them. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message