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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 20 Sep 1996 00:45:03 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <51sltv$p5@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51oph4$4vj@due.unit.no> <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130484 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27644 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43873 Rohan Tronson (rxt651@leonard.anu.edu.au) wrote: [.....] : First contact with the publishers/authors of the original article is needed, : will they release details such as what hardware was used and what versions of : UNIX, and what benchmarks they carried out. : Next an article prepared, using our own system, comparing them as fairly and : as scientifically as possible, submit this article to something like Linux : Journal (the wider audience the better, and the more general the audience the : better, perhaps someone can suggest a more appropriate publication) and also : submit a letter, citing the new article to the magazine in which the orgininal : article was published. Oh come on ! It's a joke ! It may be worth while attempting to "prove" (for example) FreeBSD against Solaris or doing similar tests, but the mileage in doing such a test against NT is zero. The audience that believes NT to be more equiped than unix in this respect - let alone by an order of magnitude, is not the sort of audience that understands "scientific" proof. Any statement needs to be quantified before it can be taken seriously. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....