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From: rcopm@yabbie.rmit.oz (Paul Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DataFrame 20/40 XP upgrade
Message-ID: <373@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 17:38:13 EST
Article-I.D.: yabbie.373
Posted: Mon Nov 24 17:38:13 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Nov-86 09:55:02 EST
References: <1091@zen.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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Summary: hmmm... 100% speed increase eh?

In article <1091@zen.BERKELEY.EDU>, korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) writes:
> ...the new "drivers" using the initializer 2.1 (to be found in the 
> ~/pub/mac directory of ucbvax.berkeley.edu's public ftp).  The
> timings I got using DiskTimer (the older version) were as follows:
> 
> Initializer 1.5		2.1 drivers	2.1 initialized		full XP
> 
> ~29.x read/write		~27.x r/w	~21.x r/w		15/14.9 r/w
> 
> So, as SuperMac claims, the XP gives about a 100% speed increase, given
> 32K blocks per read/write...
	
	Errr, a 100% speed increase means doing something in no time flat!
Now, we have a couple of DF's down under here, can we get the same improvement?
(Perhaps the coriolis force would prevent this from happening)
    
     Keep Shmiling
     Paul Menon.

    Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
    124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
 
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