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From: brad@gcc-milo.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Another Set of Disk Benchmarks
Message-ID: <500@gcc-milo.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 6-Apr-86 14:43:58 EST
Article-I.D.: gcc-milo.500
Posted: Sun Apr  6 14:43:58 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Apr-86 22:46:07 EST
References: <8603252311.AA07791@kim.berkeley.edu> <494@gcc-milo.ARPA> <785@wang.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@gcc-milo.UUCP (Brad Parker)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma
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In article <785@wang.UUCP> ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) writes:
>> In article <8603252311.AA07791@kim.berkeley.edu> hamachi@KIM.BERKELEY.EDU (Gordon Hamachi) writes:
>> >with Apple's internal 800K floppy drive.  HFS and MFS volumes seem
>> >to perform differently...
>> To be fair, you need to note if the test was run on 64k or 128k roms...
>> J Bradford Parker
>But the test doesn't operate through the file system! It does direct driver
>calls.  So, neither the cache nor the file system should have any effect...

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, (something I *NEVER* do ;-) )
the benchmark makes calls to the driver at the device manager level.
Some changes may have been made to the new ROMS to affect performance at 
this level. But, then again, the changes may make no difference. 
-just thought it should be noted.
-- 

J Bradford Parker
General Computer (HyperDrive Beach)
harvard!gcc-milo!brad

"She said, 'Just drive.'" -heard on the radio.