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From: HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Disk performance under Minix
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Date: 29 Aug 89 14:27:43 GMT
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <1989Aug28.153612.8689@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
> writes:
>As you no doubt know, the MINIX stdio internal data structures are not the
>same as AT&Ts (If they were, we'd have lawsuit problems).  This probably
>means that if will be difficult to take over some of your stdio and leave
>the rest the old way.  If anybody wants to volunteer for redoing stdio
>using Henry's stuff, by all means do so.  I'll happily include it if it
>it works, is robust, is clean code and is fast.
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

While I haven't looked at Henry's stdio, I have begun designing a new
stdio for Minix.  It should be real fast, but I don't have anything in
code yet.

-- Guy Helmer
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