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From: jcostom@shaft.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 25 Sep 1996 22:52:54 GMT
Organization: Friends of Richard Roundtree
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On 25 Sep 1996 02:58:58 GMT, Dannyman <dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu> wrote:
: Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
:
: : For what it's worth (which is probably not much, considering your
: : obvious bias), in http://www.microsoft.com/ie/press/response.htm
: : Microsoft states:
:
: Just don't forget, Microsoft Press Releases tend to be many years
: ahead of their time, if they ever come to pass at all ...
Yeah, I read that article too. They claim that a T1 provides 1 Megabyte
of data per second. What a laugh. Let's see...
A T1 is 1.544 Mbps. There are 8 bits in a byte, so....
1544000 / 8 = 193000 bytes per second. That is about 188.5 kilobytes
per second.
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Jason Costomiris jcostom@sjis.com http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom/
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