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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12576 comp.os.linux:54501 comp.os.386bsd.misc:909 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX Message-ID: <1993Sep8.004749.2438@sophia.smith.edu> Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA References: <michaelv.747102277@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <CCu0s1.29o@ssesco.com> <CCuHI1.M97@eunet.ch> <CCyo6n.LMK@ssesco.com> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 00:47:49 GMT Lines: 17 In article (sorry, lost the original citation) >>> Hey now! B^). I'll pit the 3000's 0.9 I/O performance against any >>> 386 or 486 based system any day! Well heck, my pokey old un-accelerated Amiga 2000 got better disk i/o performance than this spiffy new 486 I'm using now. I'm using the same drives with an (expensive!) Adaptec 1542C. Pretty darn depressing I must say. The price of EISA controllers amounts to highway robbery too. -john -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ ======================================= Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===