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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone (FFS performance)
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.113754.22092@pegasus.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 11:37:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.143615.12473@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr25.231055.9621@unixland.uucp> <1991Apr27.225054.21158@nstar.rn.com>
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>>I've seen this said over and over again by Larry (the FFS issue).  I haven't
>>seen the same from anyone else.  Say, anyone else out there have this
>>experience?  The ESIX FFS may well be slower than ISC's -- but it doesn't
>>"feel" any different to me than the other Unix systems I work on (Harris
>>Sysv with FFS, SunOS in various flavors).  
>
>it's just very fast - period.  Nothing (that I have played with) 
>for 386 based machines comes close..

Can anyone report any such comparisons between ISC and any of the new
SysV R4 ports?


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com