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From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: Ethernet?
Message-ID: <10285@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Oct 88 16:38:43 GMT
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In article <960@asylum.UUCP> romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey) writes:
>I *hope* they do some good disk caching with a chunk of the 8MB of
>memory...

All of it that isn't being used for something else at the time.
Improved I/O performance is one of the strong points of Mach.

Jeff Siegal