Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseen this before

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Mon May 8 14:59:13 2000

> > Used the standard images and ran it on 486dx66 with 20m ram. No faster
> > than W95 (tuned) and about the same as WinNT4.0/workstation. The Xserver
> > is the limiter as it's served not native graphics on the 486 it's
> > noticeable. It seemed robust enough but faster... not really.
>
> How much swap?
> I ran on an AMD 5x86/133 with 32mb and it seemed to scream compared
> with W95A.

I have one those AMD5x86/133s, it's faster(it's a large cache 486/133)
but same results.

Swap was 40mb was 40mb is all cases. W95A is not the fasest version. I
used W95C without IE/WOW/Plus packages installed and NS3.01 as the browser
makes a huge difference hence my comment (tuned). The hotest W9x setup is
W98se stripped and the W95A shell. You need both and something called
98lite20 to build it. It's akin to doing a system specific build under
linux.

> I've had linux working pretty well on an old 340mb IDE -- but that's
> pretty much my personal minimum these days. I can still get almost
> everything in an 850.

I run several systems with W95C, Office97(excel, word), IE401,
outlookexpress and paradox in 420mb with ~200mb free. The cpu is 5x86/133.
That's about par.

> Linux isn't really an OS release. That's why I prefer *BSD
> which are OS releases rather than this kernel with that addon toolset
> with those other apps.

Freebsd is better from my experience. I've run that on EVERYthing from
386/16 (4mb ram) up and it is clearly faster than linux, win9x or NT.
At least for the 2.2.6 release.

Still doesn't beat my 6mhz Z80/64k with BM(bubbles memory), ramdisk
and floppy. ;)

> I find that it's not too hard to mix and match most apps with any Linux
> version. One DUMB setup script file edit makes WordPerfect office play
> nice with Caldera's 2.x.

Which WPoffice? I have Caldara Openlinux 2.2 and 2.3 and WP8 is fine
under KDE. Just has a huge footprint on teh disk though.

> Yup... of course the IOBYTE version of Kermit worked with the VT180
> in S-L-O-W fashion... the customized non-generic version was much nicer.

Only if IObyte was implemented (often it was not). There were a lot of
poor BIOS implmentations that really hurt the performance and useability
of CP/M. lack of typeahead was my pet peve due to lack of interrupts
and poor modem performance (same reason).

Allison
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 14:59:13 BST

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