[ale] NT 5.0

[cyberjac]

Yes, I have heard the same thing. I know Novell has picked up on this and it has become one of its main selling points.

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 From: 	scott.lewis at ce.gatech.edu[SMTP:scott.lewis at ce.gatech.edu]
Sent: 	Wednesday, December 03, 1997 3:51 PM
To: 	ale at cc.gatech.edu
Subject: 	Re: [ale] NT 5.0

On  3 Dec, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On  3 Dec, William Young wrote:
>> I picked up a copy of PC Week (I know, mistake #1) and it was trashing NT.
>> Well, it looks like M$ have found a way to get IIS, (Microsoft's WWW/FTP
>> server) to perform at UNIX speeds. They're going to run it in kernel
>> space. I'm not making this up.
> 
> Well, there is precedent from the Unix world.  Look at in.telnetd in
> Solaris, which I've heard was moved into the kernel for performance
> reasons....
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> --
> Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu

Side note on traffic performance in NT vs the people who know better
(unix-ites), I read in PC Week that more and more MIS people are
finding that NT can't handle gigabit ethernet- it tends to peak at
around 300Mbits/s whereas Unix systems can handle it.  Any comments?
-- 


Scott Lewis   
Computer Support-Geosystems and Materials Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
scott.lewis at ce.gatech.edu   (404) 894-1062