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From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 1 Feb 1997 23:37:30 -0500
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote in article <5ctu9d$rt7@cynic.portal.ca> <pre><blink>
]In article <5crl0r$n1@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
]Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
]
]> But this thread is longer then 14 articles. Do you know how to use DejaNews,
]> or you prefer to appear as idiotic as possible ?
]
]Yes, I prefer to read and quote the articles rather than just
]insulting you. That makes me an idiot.
No. What makes you an idiot is your insistence that this
thread is about quality of Linux code vs BSD code.
]> You alleged that
]> sun machines are "486-class hardware". This is unmitigated idiocy.
]
]That's right. I was wrong because I looked at benchmarks and compared
]the perceived speed in daily use, whereas your used your imagination
]to decide that a Sparc IPX is considerably faster than a 486/100.
]Or was it that my clocks run differently depending on which machine
]I was using? I can't remember now. At any rate, you're right; I'm
]wrong.
You most certainly are. There's no such thing as generic "486/100"
and without knowledge of configuration of this
machine any comparisons have no meaning.
]> No, it's not like that. There is nothing wildly implausible about
]> saying that Linux networking is as good as BSD's
]
]Indeed. There are no data at all that support you,
You said so - it must be true.
]but because we
]have only tentatively, not conclusively, proved you wrong, you must
]be right. You win on this point, too.
You have not proven me wrong (sheesh, some more idiocy), because
I do not say that Linux is better. I am saying that I have
not seen any evidence one way or another. Certainly, what you
presented does not count even as "tentative"
--
ABILITY,n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner
ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"