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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix Executables
Keywords: 8086, not 80386
Message-ID: <I5:LExds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Jan 90 21:21:15 GMT
References: <165@raider.MFEE.TN.US> <857@jetsun.WEITEK.COM> <535@bbxsda.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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> >It is pretty simple: If it works, don't fix it. ...

But given the number of things in Xenix implemented as shell scripts, isn't it
reasonable to expect that having a bunch of programs running in emulation
mode, chopping up the bus with unaligned and byte-sized requests, would tend
to have a negative impact on the overall performance of the system?
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