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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!apollo.hp.com!lf.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!col.hp.com!jolt.pagesat.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!yama.mcc.ac.uk!deepthot!brtph500 bnr.ca!nrtphba6.bnr.ca!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nott!hone!informer1.cis.McMaster.CA!hwfn!not-for-mail From: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 19 Sep 1996 19:04:28 -0400 Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <51sjhs$hel@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130514 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27653 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43878 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. -- -- tIM...HOEk The opinions expressed above are mine, and if my employer shares them, that's his hard luck. --