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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!walter.cray.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Date: 1 Apr 1997 19:56:11 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5hrp8r$a3g@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hn00k$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hnam9$393@hoopoe.psc.edu> <5hp7p3$1qb@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hqc45$hlm@flea.best.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38262 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6543 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29605 Matt Dillon (dillon@flea.best.net) wrote: : :In article <5hp7p3$1qb@fido.asd.sgi.com>, : :Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: : :... : :> : :>Yup, they would. And if the hardware made any substantive difference, : :>you would be absolutely right. But in the lmbench paper, the P5 : :>that FreeBSD was on was actually slightly faster than the Linux P5. : :>It's hard to claim I was skewing the results against FreeBSD. And it : :>is also hard to claim that I was skewing the results against Linux. : :>I've measured lots of PCs and the difference between 120 & 133 is just : :>not enough to be an issue, it's in the noise. : :> : :>I'm happy to be proven wrong. I'm waiting.... : Larry, no matter what the results, you can't seriously be advocating : that testing two OS's on two different platforms is scientific (!). It's a survey, you guys. Read the paper. Watch the talk. Reread this entire thread. Tell me where it says that I was doing a scientific comparison of operating systems? It's just a bunch of numbers that lotso people find useful. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804