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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!news4.agis.net!agis!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!uclink3.berkeley.edu!rsf From: rsf@uclink3.berkeley.edu (Raymond Scott Fellers) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 20 Sep 1996 06:58:09 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 Message-ID: <51tfa1$8h1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51sjhs$hel@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uclink3.berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130430 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27638 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43862 Tim Vanderhoek (ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca) wrote: : Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> wrote: : > A ZDnet article says in the web page : > http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2 : > that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13 : > times) when client counts are low. : > : > Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the : > article's claim? : I would say that the article is absolutely useless since it makes : absolutely no mention of which particular variety of UNIX they are using, : or which webserver. : Actually, since they seem to view IIS's freeness as being important, the : fact that they don't even mention some of the best UNIX-clones (and : arguably the best webserver) is very telling. OTOH, to be fair, they may : not even know that there are free UNIX-clones. Hmm... Actually, from : the way it's written, one almost has to wonder if Jack Lyon is even aware : of the fact that there is not just one single brand of UNIX available. Actually they are at least minimally Linux aware as I remember a Dvorak commentary in PC Mag where he was ripping on Ray Norda's plans on getting Word Perfect out for Linux (this was an issue from last year) and how it was an utter waste of time. Ray