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From: Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.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: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 03:17:09 -0700
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Alain Knaff wrote:
> I hate to burst your bubble, but we're speaking about _free_ software
> here. Thus cost is a non-issue.
Price performance expressed as "accomplishes job divided by cost".
Ok? If it accomplishes the job and costs nothing (well, no $ cost)
your price performance is infinite. Cost would seem to be very much an
issue.
Later,
Paul
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