[LUAU] ERS
Chris Wong
wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu
Tue Mar 16 15:55:50 PST 1999
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, George Toft wrote:
> Donovan Chun wrote:
> >
> > Eric S. Raymond article at www.linuxworld.com.
>
> Last Saturday, at LCC, we had a showdown (of sorts). Uning identical
> hardware and the same LAN, we transferred a 25 MB file between two
> Win95 computers. It took 45 seconds. Then we transferred the same
> file from a samba server to the same client used in the first test,
> and it took 30 seconds. 33% faster file transfers using Linux.
nod.. but I guess a fair test would be using NT as opposed to Win95.
That's about the only thing worse than NT: Win95.
On an aside.. MacOS X... time to get a PowerPC isn't it?
--
chris
Now will it compete with Linux?
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