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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: SCO rebellion? Date: 16 Jan 1996 17:36:32 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4dgnn0$eco@helena.MT.net> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108203155.19152A-100000@world.evansville.net> <4cuat5$lj5@zuul.nmti.com> <30F9DA79.4357@sooner.net> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <30F9DA79.4357@sooner.net>, Rusty Weaver <rusty@sooner.net> wrote: >I'm running BSDI. I've used SCO in the past and I still prefer it even >though BSD has all the bell and whistles. BSD is just too slow. Wow, I'm not sure why you see that. I think you're comparing apples and oranges, since I've run SCO OpenDeathtrap, err, OpenDesktop on the *exact* same hardware as I'm running FreeBSD 2.1, and the FreeBSD box is about 2 times faster on everything. >On the other hand, Altos has a version of SCO which is supposed to >be 200 times faster than regular SCO. That's got to be 1000 times faster >than BSD. If you are comparing Altos workstations to clone PC's, then I could see a difference. However, using similar hardware BSD will blow the doors off SCO boxes. > SCO is soon to release a 64 bit version. . . it should scream! It'll be a *long* time before the 64bit version is out and as stable as the recent releases of SCO. -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth