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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!news.isg.net.au!news From: Andrew Davison <andrewd@dvp.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:28:21 +1000 Organization: Digital Video Productions Lines: 12 Message-ID: <32471D15.495D@dvp.com.au> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <323EE2A3.2C23B8A2@sullivan.bentley.com> <51kn0h$1i1@newsbr.eunet.fr> <DxzAw5.EEG@interactive.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: londo.dvp.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Cache-Post-Path: londo! Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131041 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27785 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43978 Chris Mauritz wrote: > They even avoid their own products. For a long time, if you telnetted > to www.microsoft.com, you got a BSDI prompt. :-) I think they may > still be using BSDI, but now they refuse telnet connections to avoid > further embarassment. heh > So you're saying they've ported their Internet Information Server to Unix? Nice feat! Now that they've done the MFC/OLE hard stuff then presumably porting Internet Explorer to Unix will be a snap. Should we expect an announcement any day now? I don't think so.