Freebsd 5.3 Performance

Robert Watson rwatson at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 8 22:40:27 PST 2005


On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> > Entertainingly, at the company I work at, we only recently moved from
> > Windows NT 4 to Windows XP, despite the dramatic improvements in Windows
> > between those systems...
> 
> dramatic improvements in XP over NT4?  Robert, are you ill? ;-) 
> 
> Improvements, possibly, if your talking the eye candy on the interface,
> but NT4 is loads faster on the same hardware than XP is. 

All I know is that the XP bits don't crash every week, they crash every
three weeks.  :-)  My NT4 box crashed almost continuously.

Robert N M Watson




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