[H-GEN] FreeBSD sets record

[Chris Baird]

We knew that ftp.cdrom.com was a big site, but still...

 > From http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980730/crl_networ_1.html
 >
 > "Walnut Creek CDROM set the record of transferring 417 gigabytes of
 > files in one day, surpassing Microsoft Corporation's [Nasdaq:MSFT -
 > news] record of transferring approximately 350 gigabytes of files
 > per day during the Windows95 release. Microsoft used more than 40
 > server machines to achieve the previous record, while Walnut Creek
 > CDROM used a single 200MHz Intel Pentium Pro processor running
 > FreeBSD."
 >
 > One FreeBSD machine beats 40 Microsoft servers!  -- Dennis P. Roth

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Chris,, <bunny at humbug.org.au>