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From: lang@calva.inria.fr (Bernard Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 1 Oct 1996 15:52:24 GMT
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt
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In article <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com>, Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> writes:
|> 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?

If you read ZD commercials, you get what you deserve.

   I am just surprised they have not been sued yet by some citizen
organization for they outrageous lies by commission or omission.
   It is not a matter of opinion and free speech... they sell their
stuff as information, and they cheat their customers.

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