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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 5 Jan 1996 13:10:44 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cj80k$9og@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4ca3gu$4nc@news1.halcyon.com> <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> <4cesep$pb1@agate.berkeley.edu> <4cf40b$9ri@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4cg8es$1ih@knobel.gun.de> <4cgklb$22ss@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <4ch63i$6oq@knobel.gun.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32038 alt.os.linux:6856 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11445 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1722 andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) writes: >But I'm totally unenthusiastic concerning benchmark values... >I really don't wanna see how some people make benchmarks ... >And It's a pain in the ass, how benchmark results are being compared >to go a shout "my os is better than yours".... I've always liked Andy "Minix" Tanenbaum's comment at the start of some benchmark results of his: "Figures don't lie, but liars figure." I don't know if it was original? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland