Re: [News] How Do Different Operating Systems Treat the CPU?

[Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie Hart wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > Uptimes project
> >
> > http://uptimes-project.org/hosts/os_breakdown
> >
> > One among several interesting statistics:
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | Operating System      Average CPU Load
> > | BeOS                  15%
> > | Darwin                65%
> > | Embedded              99%
> > | FreeBSD               2%
> > | Linux                 2%
> > | mIRC                  0%
> > | OpenBSD               3%
> > | OpenVMS               17%
> > | OpenVMSClust          5%
> > | OS/2                  14%
> > | Unknown               0%
> > | Windows               35%
> > `----
> >
> > Linux is favoured by many criteria.
>
>
> Bugger me!  I've heard of software bloat but calling mIRC an operating 
> system is going a bit far.
>
> Still it's an efficient one if it averages 0% CPU usage.

yeah, and with a 5MB footprint?? PUT ME NAME DOWN!! :p

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