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From: rda@epistemi.UUCP (Robert Dale)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Unix from a snob's point of view!
Message-ID: <377@epistemi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 08:03:34 EST
Article-I.D.: epistemi.377
Posted: Thu Dec  5 08:03:34 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 06:01:24 EST
References: <298@weitek.UUCP> <228@polaris.UUCP> <942@wcom.UUCP> <314@polaris.UUCP>
Reply-To: rda@epistemi.UUCP (Robert Dale)
Organization: Epistemics, Edinburgh U., Scotland
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Summary: USE MEANINGFUL SUBJECT LINES!!!!!!!!!

In article <314@polaris.UUCP> herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) writes:
>In article <942@wcom.UUCP> frodo@wcom.UUCP (James Scardelis) writes:
>>> it's partly a function of hardware as well.  tradition has it that all disk
>>> blocks are 512 bytes.  
>>	On System V, the physical block sizes are 1K.
>
>as others have pointed out, my understanding of the VAX hardware is that the
>physical blocks for paging and stuff like that are 512 bytes.  


AAAAAAAARGH!  Look, PLEASE change the subject line if the topic of the
message you're posting has moved away from what caused the posting in the
first place:  in the current instance, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I
found the "Unix from a snob's point of view" original postings interesting,
but I'm NOT that interested in what the block size is on a UNIX machine.

Sorry, but it's been one of those mornings ...


Robert Dale 	...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax!epistemi!rda