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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Mach, the new standard?
Message-ID: <8381@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 14:02:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 14:02:28 1987
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Keywords: Mach

> ... This article claimed that I/O intensive work was
> a factor of 10 faster on Mach than vanilla Unix.
> 
> Can anyone verify or explain this? ...

It's probably true, mostly because the Mach people have done a better job
on integrating virtual memory and I/O.  However, the advantage is strictly
temporary, since several Unix vendors are already doing the same.
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