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#! rnews 2005 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-4.sprintlink.net!nwnews.wa.com!usenet From: "Tim Smith" <tzs@halcyon.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 29 Sep 1996 06:34:29 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <01bbadcf$6ef66e60$8588b6cc@tzspc> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> <51uo7m$bu9@magic.metawire.com> <R.3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blv-pm14-ip3.halcyon.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:132360 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28203 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44223 Wayne <wroberts@aug.com> wrote in article <R.3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com>... > Hmmmmm....... On my screen, that looked like 70.000 with a period and not a comma. > Of course, I could be wrong. I'm using a d..n small font! :) The post that used "70.000" was from Europe. In Europe, they use period where we in the United States use comma in numbers, and they use comma where we use period. E.g., they would would write Pi*1000000 as 3.141.592,65358979323846264... where we would write 3,141,592.653589793238264... I know someone who got a discount on an HP calculator because of this. Someone had left the demo unit in European mode. Neither the salesman nor the customer realized that this was setable, and so the salesman was willing to let it go for a discount as being defective. --Tim Smith ps: sorry if this posting looks funny. I was curious to see if Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator still suck as news readers compared to trn (they still do).