Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:30:38 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) Message-ID: <19990623223038.A6422@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906232323190.94699-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian F. Feldman on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:24:03PM -0400 References: <v04011700b39728f63b38@[128.113.24.47]> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906232323190.94699-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:24:03PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > 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? > > s/interesting/unbelievable/g and you've got my reaction. This makes so little > sense that I can't even imagine it. Me too. I've found FreeBSD to outperform NT-anything in any task you throw at the machine from web service to Samba for file and print service for PCs running Windows. Its more stable too; the stability is a free "bonus" that comes at no extra charge :-). -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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