Re: A challenge to linux

Tim (sailer@sailer.rhic.bnl.gov)
Fri, 14 May 1999 09:15:50 -0400


On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 07:11:08PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > Please tell me you all are going to go thru with this and bury them
> > :)
>
> I can't see why M$ would offer such a deal if they though there was a
> chance they would loose.

My guess is that MS will rewrite certain subsystems to exploit the tests.
I would be very suspicious of any machine that comes from them pre-configured.

That's not to say that WindoesN'T doesn't perform. In my daily work,
although I'm one of the fortunate ones that get paid primarily to work
on/with Linux, I see NT running surprisingly fast and well in a lot of
situations. It's not perfect, but then, neither is Linux. There is a lot
to say about a product with 100s of *directed* programmers working on it
actually being paid money. I'm astonished and thrilled to death at how
well Linux is doing.

Tim

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