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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.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.worldpath.net!iag.net!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.diac.com!news From: "Paul M. Newhouse" <pimin@diac.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 04:21:33 -0600 Organization: Basement Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3245132D.2781E494@diac.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51oph4$4vj@due.unit.no> <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au> <51sltv$p5@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: pimin.diac.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130759 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27716 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43921 Brian Somers wrote: > Oh come on ! It's a joke ! It may be worth while attempting to "prove" > (for example) FreeBSD against Solaris or doing similar tests, but the > mileage in doing such a test against NT is zero. IMO, you are wrong on this, and you touch on it next with: > The audience that > believes NT to be more equiped than unix in this respect - let alone > by an order of magnitude, is not the sort of audience that understands > "scientific" proof. The audience that believes the article believes it because it is not refuted. They may not understand the numbers or the methodology (of your refutation) but, they will interpret silence as submission to the truth. Your reply indicates that you do not understand the target audience. The article isn't intended to sway those who have some experience with these issues nor those with a critical sense of skepticism regarding claims such as , "I proved this! Trust me, it's not necessary for you to reproduce the experiment". I think Tronson's, "Next an article ...." is exactly what needs to be done. I have no idea how to bring this about. All vendors of Unix OS's should be interested in countering this type of article with facts. Whether the article was produced by M$ stooge's or not is irrelevant. If no one refutes it NT wins by default - i.e. without ever having to prove it. Just some thoughts, Paul