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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga floppies (was: Re: Blitter vs. 80386)
Message-ID: <2505@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 19 Aug 88 11:44:23 GMT
References: <8808180059.AA05505@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <8808180059.AA05505@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU
	(Matt Dillon) writes:

> 	Using an IBM-AT 386 @ 16MHz, it still takes up to three seconds to
> go through about 200 entries (in the 4 or 5 directories I had in the path)
> to find the executable I wanted.... In otherwords, a DISKBOUND operation.

You're comparing apples to oranges. MS-DOS shouldn't be your standard for
comparison... UNIX should.

Why aim for the mud when the stars are within your grasp?
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?