[OT] Windows 2003 vs Knoppix

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Alma J Wetzker wrote:

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> No, IIRC this is the identical box, boot with knoppix, it runs 0.6
> ms, boot with windoze 2003, it runs 20 ms. Somewhere, deep in the
> bowels of Windoze, there lurks a pile of smelly stuff that
> introduces a 40 fold slowdown. I thought that M$ stuff used the
> Berkley IP stack. It did read, recently, that WinXP does not
> implement the full IP stack, does that apply to 2003? It sounds
> like it must be in the difference between the two OS's, I am no
> longer familiar enough with current M$ stuff to know what the
> problem might be.

That's academic. 20ms is still incredibly fast and arguably unnoticeable.

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