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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 23 Sep 1996 20:21:39 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com>, Subhas Roy  <subhas@pobox.com> wrote:
>A ZDnet article says in the web page
>http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2
>that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13
>times) when client counts are low.
>Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the
>article's claim?

(39) > telnet www.zdnet.com
Trying 206.66.184.201...
Connected to web1.zdnet.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

Digital UNIX (www-1.zdnet.com) (ttyp3)

login: Connection closed by foreign host.
(40) > telnet www.zdnet.com 80
Trying 206.66.184.201...
Connected to web1.zdnet.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP-1.0

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Date: Tuesday, 24-Sep-96 03:18:06 GMT
Server: Open-Market-Secure-WebServer/2.0.5.RC0
MIME-version: 1.0
Security-Scheme: S-HTTP/1.1
Location: http://home.zdnet.com/home/filters/main.html
Content-type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.
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You tell me.

rone