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To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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At 17:28 01/11/2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > IMHO stability is more important than anything else. - I prefer to run 20
> > Linux servers which will result in no phonecalls at midnight calling me
> > into College to reboot them compared to a Netware server which runs as fast
> > as the 20 Linux servers but disturbs my out-of-working-hours time!
> >
> > I agree that having ring 0 OS will improve performance, no doubt about
> > that, but at what price?
>
>It depends on how well we do out job.  I guess that's the real debate.

That's very true. (-:

I was just assuming that we live in an imperfect world and hence have 
imperfect programs no matter how hard we try to keep them perfect. /-: But 
that argument belongs to alt.philosophy.life or something like that... (-;

>Welcome back, how's things.

Fine. Thanks. Just very busy with other things so haven't gotten any coding 
done in already a few weeks now. )-:

Anton

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