---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AF093B9300D8; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 11:10:01 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <5.00CC7DFC@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; 1 Feb 2004 14:09:54 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 1702 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:09:47 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 1988; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:08:10 -0500 Received: from mta01-srv.alltel.net [166.102.165.143] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with SMTP ; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:08:10 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by mta01-srv.alltel.net Received: from alltel.net ([216.170.8.157]) by mta01-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20040201190812.ZMRV17104.mta01-srv.alltel.net@alltel.net> for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:08:12 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <401D4E5C.3040209@alltel.net> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:07:08 -0600 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Jim Korman Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows XP intermittent performance To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856762 Howard Winter wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:05:43 +1300, Russell McMahon wrote: > >>For that to be true you must read EVERY EULA that pops up during >>installation and understand what it legally says. >> > > Oh I do! That's where I discovered that MS don't want anyone to know about the performance of .NET - you have > to agree not to publish any benchmarks about it to install almost *anything* from MS - even things like > security patches. > > I read that too, when installing C# on my machine. I wonder what that means when performance and timing benchmarks are a contract deliverable!? Jim -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads .