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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:19:37 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)
Message-ID:  <v04011700b39728f63b38@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <19990623163928.E581@freebie.lemis.com>
References:  <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:52:25PM -0700 <19990623084919.R76907@freebie.lemis.com> <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com>

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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?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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