[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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