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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Unix on top of/in parallel with other operating systems
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 22:48:00 EST
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> In terms of performance, DG/UX seems faster for normal job mixes, though I
> suspect that AOS/VS wins in cases like large fortranish finite element
> cases, because you have more tuning capability.

Huh?  For CPU-bound jobs, the only difference should be in OS overhead.  If
you have only one process running, UNIX definitely doesn't impose much
overhead and I'd be very surprised if AOS/*VS imposed much either.  There
may be more overhead in context-switching and the like.  There may be more
overhead in doing the I/O to read or write the data in under UNIX, I dunno.
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