Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:11:04 -0400 (EDT) From: James <dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: higginsj@iname.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616120846.1956A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615222144.007fea10@mx.serv.net>
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 01:13 AM 6/16/98 -0400, James wrote: > > >They lived in /usr but they did several very complex integrations in the > >process of running and wrote out large temporary files containing > >results and partial results that resided in /var and /tmp until the app > >terminated. > > > >Problem is that even on an RS/6000 with 512 meg of RAM and SCSI disks > >they took days or as much as a month to complete one job. > > > >Meanwhile, the machine is still cranking on with it's daily duties. > > Precisely what I love most about FreeBSD. Try that on Win NT and > everything will crawl like a snail (both the scientific app and the other > daily duties, or if you're lucky it's either/or). > Try it on a PC and it crawls. Dual PPro 200 and similar hardware took almost double the time. The PPro was using Red Hat Linux. James > with NT server, and that's about it. They'll do somewhat better with > company intranets, due to lack of people who know Unix, and lack of need > for as much power. My company intranet uses a mix of UNIX and NT Server. Once again, everything has it's purpose. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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