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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4223 alt.folklore.computers:68421 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!uwvax!sinetnews!news.u-tokyo.ac.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!wnoc-sfc-news!news.dec-j!jrd.dec.com!mets86.mse.tay.dec.com!news.athena.tay.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!alingo.zk3.dec.com!werme From: werme@alingo.zk3.dec.com (Eric Werme) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux? Date: 21 Nov 94 17:39:33 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 16 Message-ID: <werme.785439573@alingo.zk3.dec.com> References: <3am248$7kv@itu1.sun.ac.za> <jsmCzKHK8.Ev1@netcom.com> <3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za> <3ao791$bc4@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> Reply-To: werme@zk3.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: alingo.zk3.dec.com vincent@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) writes: >Antony Richfield (arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za) wrote: >: No, sir, I am getting exactly what I wanted; email telling me the exact >: relative merits of both OSes from both points of view. It's the effects, >Aha - so you are going to post a summary of your findings for everyone >else to benefit from your sneaky plot - are you not? Why bother? From the postings so far, I've seen no reasonable A-B comparisons, no recognized benchmarks (e.g. spec, Aim, Xperf, ....) Just people responding with knee jerk reactions to a fabricated claim. -- Eric (Ric) Werme | werme@zk3.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. | This space intentionally left blank.