*BSD News Article 38465


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4242 alt.folklore.computers:68449
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!netcom6!ceb
From: ceb@netcom6.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux?
In-Reply-To: arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za's message of 20 Nov 1994 18:03:41 GMT
Message-ID: <CEB.94Nov26225644@netcom6.netcom.com>
Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto
References: <3am248$7kv@itu1.sun.ac.za> <jsmCzKHK8.Ev1@netcom.com>
	<3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 06:56:44 GMT
Lines: 31

In article <3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za> arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za (Antony Richfield) writes:

   John Miller (jsm@netcom.com) wrote:
   : FLAMEBAIT ALERT!

   : Mr. Richfield posted a similar message over in the Linux groups, 
   : but with the opposite spin, i.e., I hear Linux is not as fast 
   : as BSD.  

   : Whatta maroon.  

   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,
   not the causes,  that count .... try it sometime when you want the whole
   story behind something; it really works!

   --
   Antony Richfield at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
   GAT d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a22 w+++ v?*(+) C+ U? P-- L 3 E- N++ K+(---) W-- M-- !V
   -po+ Y+ t !5 !j R++ G'' !tv b++ D+ B? e+(*)>++++ u**(*) h*(-) f--(?)@ r-- !n !y*
   -----------------------------------GEEK CODE 2.1-------------------------------

At risk of your reputation, though there are those who would maintain
that by posting from Stellenbosch with a .sig like the above, you have
foregone any claim to such . . . . 

How are things up there in the wine/bush country, in post new-SA?
Stellenbosch: home of the only speed-trap I saw in the whole country.

--