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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (20958)	9/14/1998 12:39:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz - Good point. In fact I have run the same tests on SCO and Linux and performance was virtually identical, leading me to believe that the pipe was the limitation in all cases. I like Linux pretty well, BTW. Both Linux and SCO have less OS overhead than NT, which is shown pretty clearly in most benchmarks, but I don't think the TCP/IP stack is the culprit. For the technically savvy, take a look at the VI Architecture spec, a careful reading will show where the bottlenecks are (since VI is designed to eliminate them) but it requires some analysis. My understanding is that NT for Alpha is available via all MSFT distribution (retail, Select, OEM, DSP, etc.) at the same price as the X86 version.