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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Date: 7 Sep 1995 22:14:56 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <42nqt0$rss@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <41gceu$i14@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <41m3at$vn7@lucy.swin.edu.au> <41qk39$16f@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <adtDE195B.GA1@netcom.com> <41un0e$3jm@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <adtDE4xEp.Jyn@netcom.com> <4236mc$p8g@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep2004202@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <42jot7$bfi@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep7002950@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:MICHAELV.95Sep7002950@MindBender.HeadCandy.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5857 comp.sys.intel:47900 michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: >In article <42jot7$bfi@kadath.zeitgeist.net> "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes: > > Must say after reading your posting you make a very good > Microsoft Salesman :) > >My point was simply to clear up misconceptions. So do you work for Microsoft? > Additionally, with fast networking in FreeBSD we are achieving near > total disk thruput when using NFS. > >That's nice. You still have to admit NFS (a.k.a. No Fucking Security) >is not the complete model of the best file-sharing system. I'm happy >for the performance you have achieved, but there are still many other >things wrong with NFS. Speed is only one criteria for a good >file-sharing implementation. Hang on here, the FreeBSD folks did all the work not me. >Once again: if you're so paranoid about your OS that you have to I am not paranoid about FreeBSD and I am happily hacking away on FreeBSD 8) And no I don't need any doze of confidence or any such crap that you claim that I need. >manufacture faults in Windows 95 and spread old wives tales, then you >need a little dose of self-confidence. If you can't find real faults >in Windows 95 then you aren't trying very hard. FreeBSD is a really >great OS, and this petty nit-picking is accomplishing nothing. Michael's Emperor whithout clothes: If an OS has multitasking, round-robin priority pre-empted scheduling, interanal OS resource maanagemet, memory protection, ample hardware support: Then why can't the OS not be a server? 1) Because Microsoft wants you to buy into NT ? (and this is no secret) 2) Because Win95 may not be upto to the job or is cripple on purpose -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD