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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 5 Jan 1996 09:44:37 GMT
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To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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In article <4ch9kd$2ob@agate.berkeley.edu>,
jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <4cg8es$1ih@knobel.gun.de>,
>Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> wrote:
>>In article <4cf40b$9ri@bell.maths.tcd.ie>,
>> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>>>I am actually running FreeBSD on a 386,
>>>and can say after scientific testing that it is much slower than
>>>Linux on a Pentium :-)
>>
>>Well, simply saying such statements isn't fair. You certainly
>>know about the difficulties with benchmarks and so on ...
>
>I think you didn't read Tim's posting too carefully. He was joking
>here folks, joking! :-)
Joking ... grumpf ... well, I think you are right ;-)) It's not
easy to get every joke, when entering a discussion, where inn's
expire already did it's work ;-)) Perhaps then I had got it better.
>Having also compared Linux on a Pentium vs FreeBSD on an i386, I can
>confirm Tim's `benchmark results' :-)
Amazing results ;-)) But please confirm, FreeBSD on the i386 was
not wearing a "Wonderbra", right ?! ;-))
Andreas ///
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