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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Watson [mailto:rwatson@freebsd.org]
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:26 PM
> To: Tm4528@aol.com
> Cc: dave@horsfall.org; questions@freebsd.org; tedm@toybox.placo.com;
> kris@obsecurity.org
> Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance
> 
> Entertainingly, at the company I work at, we only recently moved from
> Windows NT 4 to Windows XP, despite the dramatic improvements in Windows
> between those systems...

dramatic improvements in XP over NT4?  Robert, are you ill? ;-)

Improvements, possibly, if your talking the eye candy on the interface, but
NT4 is loads faster on the same hardware than XP is.

Ted