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From: Tom Lislegaard <tl@cmr.no>
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Subject: Re: Performance of FreeBSD and MS Windows. What about select()  
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tom wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Jonathan & Charmane Frazier wrote:
> 
> > Nope, I am correct.  Microsoft used Redhat for a long time for their web servers
> > also, not just hotmail.  I'm not sure what they are running now, but you used to be
> > able to go to linus.microsoft.com and see the redhat/apache "successful
> > installation" page.  I found it quite amusing to say the least.  Solaris is being
> > used exclusively on hotmail, NT couldn't handle it.
> 
>   No you are wrong.  Just because there is a Linux install somewhere
> within *.microsoft.com means very little.  www.microsoft.com is NT, and
> always has been NT.  That is a known fact.
>

You're both wrong.
I remember several years ago I telnet'ed into www.microsoft.com,
and guess what it said - Welcome to BSDI !

-tom
 
>   hotmail is not exclusively Solaris.  They use a FreeBSD and Solaris mix.
> This is well known too, and Microsoft has stated this publicly several
> times.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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