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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:9060 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8006 comp.unix.misc:15501 comp.unix.bsd:15886 comp.sys.powerpc:31727 comp.sys.intel:28949 comp.os.misc:3688 comp.os.linux.misc:33239 comp.os.linux.development:22364 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4769 comp.os.386bsd.development:3015 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnexus!news.halcyon.com!kristina.az.com!jwilks From: Janet Wilks <jwilks@az.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 18:23:29 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950110181758.16297B-100000@kristina.az.com> References: <3d8e0l$6ve@galaxy.ucr.edu> <NEWTNews.3157.788323227.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <3dtjnh$r7u@galaxy.ucr.edu> <tsikesD1zwqr.7JF@netcom.com> <3ek26k$6o2@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kristina.az.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3ek26k$6o2@galaxy.ucr.edu> On 6 Jan 1995, Joe Sloan wrote: ---snip---> > As for Alphas - it made me want to cry when a number of these beautiful > machines arrive here saddled with NT - However, after an evaluation period, > NT was scrubbed in favor of DEC/OSF UNIX, which resulted in approximately > a 3-fold increase in speed, according to benchmarks run under each OS. > (Imagine how fast linux will be on these machines) > > jjs > From my experience, Microsoft seems to have no concept for optimizing their code. Not only do their 32-bit apps run slower than current 16-bit MS counterparts, but my most memory-intensive windows app is none other than Microsoft Word 6.0 for Win. It magically finds a way to suck about 45% of my Windows resource stack. All this from a word processor. Even Photoshop 2.5 (which i use frequently) puts less of a load on my computer (resources-wise) than Microsoft Word 6.0 for Win. And obviously they have not done a good job giving NT any competitive speed. Microsoft needs to start thinking about optimization.