Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 07:01:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... Message-ID: <199708291401.HAA04906@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19970829011410.35329@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Aug 29, 97 01:14:10 am
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Peter Korsten wrote: > [snip....other information about NT robustness] > At one time, I was forced to switch off the system because I > accidently opened 1200 Explorers and the damn thing just wouldn't > crash. :) ftp.cdrom.com uses 1 FreeBSD box to serve 150GB of ftp dat each day to the Internet. MS uses 44 NT boxes to serve 350GB of http data to the Internet each day over 8 DS3 (45Mbps) lines. this information is courtesy http://www.microsoft.com/syspro/technet/tnnews/features/mscom.htm dated may 8th 1997. http is more communications intensive than ftp. and microsoft claims that their systems have a lot of unused capacity to handle spikes. nonetheless the ratio of 44:1 speaks for itself. a microsoft employe on the FreeBSD mailing lists asked me about these numbers a couple months ago. he claimed that they are out-of-date. i asked for new numbers. never heard back from him. are you still there? are new numbers available? FreeBSD ms computers 1 44 ram 1/2 GB 19.2GB disk 142GB 2048GB+ FreeBSD? you *cant* buy good this good ;) jmb
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