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From: narten@cs.albany.edu (Thomas Narten)
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Subject: Re: Extremely Fast File Systems
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Date: 31 Jul 90 13:19:58 GMT
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In article <5555@darkstar.ucsc.edu> craig@BBN.COM (Craig Partridge) writes:
       I've heard the discussions about busses and disk drives before
   but this is the first time someone's said CPUs will be a problem.

Take a look at John Ousterhout's paper "Why Aren't Operating Systems
Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware?" in the June USENIX proceedings.
He reports on a number of benchmarks, and one of his conclusions is
that memory bandwidth is not keeping up with processor speed in RISC
machines.  
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Thomas Narten
narten@cs.albany.edu