From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 23 20:24:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D123C14D49 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:24:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA94715; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:24:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:24:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message