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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!cs.utexas.edu!academ!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!zuul.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: SCO rebellion? Date: 15 Jan 1996 19:43:07 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4deaob$e65@zuul.nmti.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108203155.19152A-100000@world.evansville.net> <4cuat5$lj5@zuul.nmti.com> <30F9DA79.4357@sooner.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com In article <30F9DA79.4357@sooner.net>, Rusty Weaver <rusty@sooner.net> wrote: > I'm running BSDI. I've used SCO in the past and I still prefer it even > though BSD has all the bell and whistles. BSD is just too slow. That's really interesting, because my experience is that in general SCO is considerably slower than BSD. Why? Because of all the bells and whistles in SCO! It's got a massive amount of guaranteed backwards compatibility code that you can't get rid of... for example, you can still run Xenix-286 binaries on it. This is a useful feature if you have old Xenix software you have to run, but for most people that's just code they'll never use. Could you elaborate on just how BSD is slower than SCO? What exactly are you basing that assertion on? -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them