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From: wg@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Grieskamp)
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Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: Tools Tools Tools)
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Date: 16 Jan 91 23:11:14 GMT
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davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  My experience is that normally there is 1-5% CPU in the shell, leaving
>very little room for actual improvement. 

This is nosense, unless you measured process spawns and other system 
services invoced by the shell. Did you?


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Wolfgang Grieskamp 
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