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From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: X-terms v. PCs v. Workstations
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Date: 8 Dec 89 17:54:16 GMT
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In article <89Dec5.151758est.27219@snow.white.toronto.edu> cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
> Does anyone? This isn't an idle question; I'm not aware of any papers
>or studies on the disk access patterns of modern workstation-oriented
>environments. 

...

>We're working on it here, and already have gotten some
>surprising numbers (well, surprising to me!).


Sounds interesting...

Can you give us some idea of what your surprising numbers look like?

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