Re: [TCLUG:5285] NTS4 vs. Linux study from Mindcraft.

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

that's actualy a really interesting idea.. a university group of CS majors
to do benchmarking, and check for cheating on either side

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Brady Hegberg wrote:

> One interesting thing I saw was that Mindcraft has found that NT is also 
> faster than Novell and Sun servers.  I find it VERY difficult to believe 
> that NT is faster than Netware just because Netware has so little 
> overhead.  I haven't seen the Sun comparison but I would assume that's 
> pretty bogus too.  Novell's website stops just short of calling the 
> Mindcraft people idiots.
> 
> I think a study like this would be better done with 2 identical machines 
> and 3 teams.  A Linux team, an NT team and a client team.  The first two 
> teams would setup their machines and tweak them appropriately.  Then the 
> client team (who would be as objective as possible) would beat on them and 
> report the results.
> 
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