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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Minix/ST question
Message-ID: <1668@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 17 Nov 88 11:25:34 GMT
References: <357@cvbnet2.UUCP> <3795@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <1416@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <1416@unisoft.UUCP> bae@unisoft.UUCP (Hwa Jin Bae) writes:
> I haven't looked at amoeba
>stuff yet but according to AST it's one of the fastest RPC's around,

We published a paper giving the performance of Amoeba vs SUN's RPC.
The reference is:

Tanenbaum, A.S., Renesse, R. van, and Staveren, H. van:
"Performance of the World's Fastest Distributed Operating System,"
ACM Operatng System Review, vol 4, pp. 25-34, Oct. 1988.

In short, for small RPCs, Amoeba is 9 times faster than the SUN and for large
ones, it has triple the bandwidth.  Furthermore, the MINIX implementation of
Amoeba is in some ways better than the SUN implementation of Amoeba.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)