Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Extended OS Part II Message-ID: <1990Oct3.084923.22547@visix.com> Date: 3 Oct 90 08:49:23 GMT References: <5122@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Oct3.061950.29203@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@visix.com Reply-To: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, Virginia Lines: 16 In article <1990Oct3.061950.29203@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes: > I could easily imagine the Unix compress command running several times > faster on the DSP. I can't. The current 'compress' is basically I/O bound on any machine worth its salt. Unless the DSP can talk to the disk faster than the 680x0 :-), it would be of no help whatsoever... -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service." --John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty" (1859)