Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wcom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!wcom!frodo From: frodo@wcom.UUCP (James Scardelis) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Unix from a snob's point of view! Message-ID: <942@wcom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 20:40:54 EST Article-I.D.: wcom.942 Posted: Sat Nov 16 20:40:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 04:40:56 EST References: <298@weitek.UUCP> <228@polaris.UUCP> Organization: Warner Computer Systems, Inc., Saddle Brook, NJ Lines: 12 > it's partly a function of hardware as well. tradition has it that all disk > blocks are 512 bytes. this is fine on a smaller machine where there was > only 64K to work with, the CPU and memory are slow, and so was the disk. > you can make block sizes bigger, but still you have to live with hardware > that doesn't understand it. On System V, the physical block sizes are 1K. -- Jim Scardelis, SA {vax135,ihnp4}!wcom!frodo #include