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To: Arnold Layne who wrote (1601)	6/29/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 2617

A faster filesystem would be great for everything, not just benchmarks. My understanding of the Mindcraft benchmark is that the Linux bottleneck was in the IP stack, not the filesystem. Note that it was not representative of the real world because even the losing (Linux) machine could saturate an OC3 line (100 T1 lines) using normal file sizes. This means that the network itself will become a bottleneck long before you see a slowdown in a Linux machine (on anything but a specially engineered benchmark designed to exploit this weakness). But a faster filesystem would speed up real-world operations. Let's hope this is for real...

To: Arnold Layne who wrote (1601)	6/29/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2617

More bad news for MSFT ... Linux for the Masses wired.com Targeting consumers not yet on the Net, Ebiz Enterprises will market a US$200 computer running the GNU/Linux operating system. Ebiz, a manufacturer of Linux and Windows computers, says its Personal Internet Appliance, or PIA, will provide Internet access and include a word processor, spreadsheet, and database. The PIA will feature at least a 2.1 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, an AMD processor, speakers, a keyboard and mouse, Ebiz said. The monitor will be sold separately.