OS Performance

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:jfowler at westrope.com]

> Well MaximumPC Magazine ...

... never saw a Microsoft product it didn't love.  

Performance?  Compared to what?  XP on 1+ GHz out-performs 95 on a P200,
sure.  That's how MS has been selling it's "performance improvements" all
along.  But there's just no way that much code bloat can run faster or
better than NT4 or 95 on equivalent hardware.

If you need real, side-by-side performance tests, several have been
published by "real" reviewers including Infoworld.  I've got 'em here
somewhere, I'll post links.

Relevant to Linux, I don't know if I've seen any tests comparing XP to, say,
Mandrake 8.1.  Perhaps we could come up with some relevant tests?  The only
thing I can think of right off would be to compare Netscape on Mandrake to
Netscape on 95 and on XP.  (Does 4.7 run on XP at all?)  What else could we
compare?