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Article #2336Re: *big iron*
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1989 16:33
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1989 16:33
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In article <7997@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >... most Unix machines are handicapped by the "standard" unix fs/disk >cache. This cache requires them to do single-block reads, while under AmigaDos >the filesystem can ask for large blocks and have it transfered by DMA directly >from disk to where the application's read goes to... It's quite possible to do this under Unix as well, of course, if you've got kernel people who seriously care about I/O performance. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: *big iron* Message-ID: <1989Sep26.163307.17238@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <7981@cbmvax.UUCP> <11538@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <22488@cup.portal.com> <7997@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 16:33:07 GMT