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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: Workstation Disk I/O
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Date: 11 Oct 90 06:18:43 GMT
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In article <143502@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:

>I would be very happy with
>a benchmark that showed off Sun's VM system;  I'm unhappy with a benchmark 
>that shows off Sun's VM system and claims to be measuring the I/O system.

Sorry, but, at least here, VM system dose not win. With dynamic buffer
caching, the same IOstone performance can be obtained.

MIPS and SONY already have such OS.

						Masataka Ohta