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From: hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Real World Benchmarks
Message-ID: <hclausen.2437@adspdk.CBMNET>
Date: 12 Aug 90 13:31:30 GMT
References: <3902@crash.cts.com>
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>In article <3902@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>I have written a small disk test using unix open(), read(), write(),
>but results out the Amiga 3000 SO FAR in front of the DOS machine
>with a 40M IDE Conner drive, I feel there must be a problem with the
>Turbo-C read() write() library calls.  I mean is my Amiga 3000 really
>over 25 times faster than a 20 Mhz DOS machine?  

   The file system in MS-DOS is about as fast as our Old File System. IBM
recently created a High Performance File System under OS/2 (half an OS),
similar to our FFS. A factor of twenty sounds reasonable - why do you
think the PC people always quote access times rather than transfer rates?


                                              -Henrik

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