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From: Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk ("Gordon L. Scott")
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Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <D2ys07.EKB@bonkers.taronga.com> <3g65h7$7ec@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3g697f$gs0@keys.csi.net> <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <791660505snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <D3E3u9.3uB@novell.co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 13:10:28 +0000
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On the main thread, can anyone quantify the effects of #users,
#processes and time-slice size on the various systems? The only
time I ever _really_ tried to evaluate the performance of a Unix
system, I spawned increasing numbers of compile subprocesses and
watched the throughput curve 'til it stalled.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On a minor sub thread.
In article <D3E3u9.3uB@novell.co.uk>
msohnius@novell.co.uk "Martin Sohnius" writes:
> : Pretty impressive huh? -- It's just a pity that pigs don't really fly.
>
> One question: does the 'bc' in the MKS Toolkit really do the "inifinite
> precision" thing?
I'm afraid that 'infinite precision' is probably even less likely
than flying pigs :-)
FYI MKS's bc says something like the following (the number's correct)
"Scale can only have a precision up to 32767"
Regards,
--
Gordon Scott Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk Compuserve 100332,3310
Basingstoke Beekeeper Beekeeper@apis.demon.co.uk
Working for this company enables me to continue with the two
luxuries that I have got used to: eating and living indoors.