Re: GLUG: Browser War

[Manuel Fernandes <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to give anything to M$ but were the machines all identical?
Did they at least have the same amount or more RAM than the Linux machine?

I ask this because I tend to find that M$ machine users tend to have less
RAM in their PC's than Linux users around here though there are some very
high performance exceptions around here where Linux does much more with
less.


On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 jvrenmo@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I've just tested some huge HTML files on both browsers IE5 and Netscape,
> guess what configuration won the contest.
> Yep, putting the HTML pages on a Linux server, and opening it up with
> Netscape.
> IE5 seemed to bomb out even if I put the 14.7MB HTML files on the local
> Win9x machines. Tested it on 6 diffrent machines (all Dell), everyone hung,
> some reported
> memory errors, and all sorts of things.
> Netscape from the Linux Server, no problem.
> Shame .. poor M$
> 
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