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From: Wes Peters <wes@dayna.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ODBC & freeBSD
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:02:51 -0700
Organization: Dayna Communications
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To: VB <vb@ulm.netsurf.de>
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Mikhail recently opined:
> > There are quite powerfull database engines for FreeBSD and other decent
> > Unices. Get rid of NT alltogether -- that machine you now waste for it
> > can be the web-server, the database server and someone's workstation if
> > driven by a decent OS.
VB replied:
> ever tried NT? Doesn't sound so. (I'm no Bill Gates fan at all)
I have; I run it 5 days a week. It's better than Win95, as long as you
have *plenty* of memory and CPU, but it's certainly not UNIX. My P5/166
with 32M of RAM, running WinNT 4.01, feels *much* more sluggish than
my 486DX2/66 with 32M of RAM running FreeBSD 2.1.6+. At some things,
the P5/166 is actually somewhat faster, but not very many. And task
switch overhead? Horrible. No, you don't want to run a database server
in the background on your NT workstation, it just won't handle the load
and still respond.
--
Wes Peters It was a diamond as big as the Ritz
Software Engineer What you gonna do with this, tell me
Dayna Communications Who's gonna save you when you're a slave to
A diamond as big as the Ritz