Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda
From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC 80 does not support Asynch i/o.
Keywords: Hall of Shame entry?
Message-ID: <872@lts.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 00:05:29 GMT
References: <11605@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <271@berlin.acss.umn.edu>
Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Reston, VA
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grg@berlin.acss.umn.edu (George Gonzalez) writes:
    Ideally, they would have built async I/O into the system so we
    wouldnt have to discuss it now.  Maybe a future version of the
    system will do just that.  I suspect A/UX does it right now.

Umm... that was the point.  Apple *did* build Async I/O into the
system, it's just that their SCSI disk driver is incapable of
supporting it.  A/UX, last I knew, didn't support it at all, just like
most UNIX systems (well, they might have put in support for async I/O
for sockets using SIGIO, but that's a special case).

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