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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock &lt;<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>&gt;</LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:09:19 -0700</LI>
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On 02:37 PM 5/13/99 +0100, I personally witnessed Nicholas Lee jumping up
to say:
&gt;
&gt;On Tue, 11 May 1999, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
&gt;
&gt;&gt; Incidentally, I'm going to be porting my server's Windows codebase over to
&gt;&gt; one or more flavors of UNIX (Linux, and anything else it turns out to
&gt;&gt; compile properly under), so if I do threads (which I may not) we'll have
&gt;&gt; something to benchmark. 
&gt;
&gt;Although you have to be careful.  You can only properly compare optimised
&gt;source bases.   It's no good to just get it to compile, since that would
&gt;hardly be a fair comparison.

I'll be optimising for Red Hat Linux. I will *not* be specifically porting
to any other UNIX flavor, so anything other than RHL will either work or
not work based purely on whether it compiles cleanly and operates properly.
(I *may* also optimise for Solaris at a later date, but this is not a
priority. HP-UX and AIX are right out.) IOW, if it compiles and works on
BSD, cool -- if it doesn't, tough. ;)

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<LI><STRONG>RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00184" HREF="msg00184.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 09 May 1999, 11:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00192" HREF="msg00192.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 11 May 1999, 20:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00223" HREF="msg00223.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 12 May 1999, 22:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00247" HREF="msg00247.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Nicholas Lee <a href="mailto:N.J.Lee#statslab,cam.ac.uk">N.J.Lee#statslab,cam.ac.uk</a>, Fri 14 May 1999, 08:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00268" HREF="msg00268.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sun 16 May 1999, 07:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00296" HREF="msg00296.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Tue 18 May 1999, 06:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00224" HREF="msg00224.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Daniel Garcia <a href="mailto:dgarcia#hollyfeld,org">dgarcia#hollyfeld,org</a>, Wed 12 May 1999, 22:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00220" HREF="msg00220.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 12 May 1999, 22:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00231" HREF="msg00231.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Sockets</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 14 May 1999, 07:34 GMT
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