🚀 go-pugleaf

During Phoenix USENIX, at the Unisoft booth, on the Mac II,
a "time cat /usr/dict/words > /dev/null" took about four seconds
of clock time.  Staffers knew little about the disk or controller,
except that it was made by Qualogy.

Is the sluggishness due to:

	(a) xfer rate of the disk (the Dataframe, for example is
      	    spec'ed at just 5 Mbits/sec)?
	(b) an underpowered controller?
	(c) the Sys5-derived filesystem (BSD would do better)
	(d) suboptimal interleave factors for above combination?

The informal comparison between the new Sony 68020-based machine
and the Mac II in the August Unix/World also hints at unbalanced I/O
on the Mac II.

Would disk performance under the default Mac OS be similar?

ames!jaw