On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 11:48:27 -0800 (PST) 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Once again, in slow motion
 >      machine A  runs FreeBSD.
 >      machine B  runs NetBSD
 > 
 >      Machine A is reported by a highly esteemed researcher as
 >      doing interrupt dispatch and driver processing at a
 >      certain speed.
 > 
 >      I have measuerd machine B at doing just interrupt dispatch.  My
 >      numbers show machine B takes longer to do that than it takes for
 >      machine A to do slightly more.
 >      Machine A  has slower hardware than machine B (100 vs 133 Mhz).
 > 
 >      I conclude FreeBSD performs better at this task than FreeBSD.
 > 
 > That proves it to *my* satisfaction.

As far as I'm concerned, it doens't prove anything, because the
hardware was not identical.  I don't particularly care that the
hardware in machine A is "slower".

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