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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: BSDI Vs. NT... NT looses big
Date: 23 Dec 1995 11:53:28 -0600
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In article <4be592$6tb@madeline.ins.cwru.edu>,
Gabriel N. Schaffer <gns2@po.CWRU.Edu> wrote:

>>Why is it that NT advocates always compare todays (or usually
>>tomorrows :-) MS Windows /Windows NT features with Unix
>>as it was more than ten years ago?  Modern Unices are multithreaded
>>Modern HTTP servers on UNIX are multithreaded.
>
>Oh really?  The web was practically invented on Unix this decade, therefore
>you should be able to name an overabundance of modern HTTP servers on Unix
>that are multithreaded.

First someone has to demonstrate that there is an advantage for them.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com