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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 :-).

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