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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: MacII FTP speeds on Ethernet
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Date: 31 Jul 89 19:39:31 GMT
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In article <8907250124.AA23044@multimax.encore.com>, bzs@ENCORE.COM (Barry
Shein) writes:
> With the additional overhead of the
> network activity (those disks are all PIO, right?) you're probably
> doing well at those speeds.

Yup.  I *really, really* wish Apple would let us do async I/O to the file
system.  I can ask for it, but the OS ignores me.  Grumble, grumble.
Sometimes you *want* to treat the disk as a slow device...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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