Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:35:48 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <4.1.19981223192957.00ada960@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19981223235809.B29194@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <4.1.19981223111457.009f4ee0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981223005658.00b44ee0@genesis.ispace.com> <XFMail.981223165817.asmodai@wxs.nl> <4.1.19981223111457.009f4ee0@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 11:58 PM 12/23/98 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: >According to Drew Baxter: >> handle the haul. As it goes I think Windows has a 'socket limit' as far as >> how many open connections it can have inbound or outbound. Pretty inane if >> you ask me. > >It was only in one of beta of NT4. The limitation is now only in the >Licence (after much lobbying from Tim O'Reilly -- yes, that O'Reilly guy) >and is pretty much the sum of the differences between NTS and NTW (there >are differences in how the OS is tuned but the code is the same). Yeah I've noticed that the options it comes with for software is really the difference between NT Workstation and NT Server. If you take a look inside the service packs and all it looks that way too.. The speed problem is probably because the GUI takes up too much system resources on its own. Ironically if you could combine NT's networking with Win95's OS, it'd probably be a little more tolerable. But then again, that would ruin one of the selling features of Alternative OSes.. The whole relational speed thing alone boggles my mind.. Why someone would want to go get NT for a simple web server when they could do it for free, and with less of a machine. I think maybe some of it lies in "if it's free, it probably isn't any good." or "Where's the support?".. Maybe the introduction of FreeBSD Mall will fix this some.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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