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From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Are 3B1 "pipes" really slower than molasses?
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.140504.11876@noao.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 14:05:04 GMT
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Take a look at Figure 17.2 (p. 684) of my book "UNIX Network Programming"
(Prentice Hall, 1990) -- I could only get about 200 Kbytes/sec for the
3b1 using pipes with 512 bytes per read/write system call.

	Rich Stevens