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From: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Apple System 7.0, AmigaDOS versus OS/2, etc...
Message-ID: <3269@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 89 01:57:07 GMT
References: <9700004@prisma> <1900@aucs.UUCP> <18826@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, ECN
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In article <18826@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>< 4.0 is a joke. The Mac may not be Unix, but it is sure a far cry from
>< what the competition is stuck with...
>Thank goodness it's not Unix.  If it were Unix, the file system
>would be about three times slower.  AT&T could learn something
>about file systems from Apple...
  Funny, I don't notice that file access seems significantly slower on my
Mac under Unix as opposed to under MacOS.  
  Not that this means that either one is going to win any prizes for speed.
Both could stand to learn a lot from the work UC Berkeley did on speeding up
the Unix filesystem.  Check out the paper "A Fast File System for Unix", by 
McKusick, Joy, Leffler, and Fabry (ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, vol. 2,
pp.181-197.) Or just ask anyone who has used a BSD system before being 
condemmed to the purgatory of System V :-).
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