Re: New Robot Announcement

Ed Carp @ TSSUN5 (ecarp@tssun5.dsccc.com)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:28:59 -0600


> From owner-robots@webcrawler.com Mon Jan 15 19:28 CST 1996
> Subject: Re: New Robot Announcement
> From: Larry Burke <lburke@aktiv.com>
> To: <robots@webcrawler.com>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:56:21 -0800
>
> >Exactly how is this better than Harvest, which is free?
>
> Harvest server software currently runs only on UNIX machines. Duppies was
> designed for the web serving community who either do not know and don't
> want to know UNIX or do not have a UNIX box available.

I was under the impression that most web servers were running on a UNIX box.
What else are you going to run a server on? I would argue that NT doesn't
have the horsepower, and tehre aren't a lot of alternatives.