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RE: but will it run windows?

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:57:01 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0036F35D.20010817085441@fatcity.com>

FreeBSD has some of the worst multiple processor thread support of all the linuxes, although it's IO if I remember well is pretty good.

"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

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I was thinking more along the lines of FreeBSD as optimal cost/benefit ratio. Now, if you can throw the Winders gui over a freeBSD codebase... Oh, wait, there is Mac OS...

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX

Christopher Spence wrote:
>
> Not everyone can throw money/hardware at an OS's deficiencies.
> Os deficiencies? It takes $60,000 server to run Solaris OK.
> In NT you get the same performance at about $5,000. Most of the
> deficiences are to the poor performance of the intel processor in
> comparison to the 64bit risc counterparts. Till you hit around
> $100,000 or more, do you see the real advantages of the unix platform.
>
> Christopher R. Spence
> Oracle DBA



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