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From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
Date: 12 Sep 1995 16:58:57 -0400
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On Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:20:26 -0400, Mathew G Monroe <mmex+@andrew.cmu.edu> said:

> Its not a good idea to compait memory usage or preformance based on
> things like netscape which are broken.  Unless of course all you
> care about is the "normal" user who only needs to use netscape and a

I was trying to say that FreeBSD didn't seem to use swap *that* much
faster than Linux, barring enormous Netscapes running around.  No,
nobody here cares about those horrid "normal" users.  :-)

  -- Robert