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From: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: (IBM V1.3) tty1 performance?
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Date: 2 Dec 88 21:23:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: dtynan@sultra.UUCP's message of 30 Nov 88 04:29:19 GMT

I too have gnuucp running under minix.  The reason it is so slow has
nothing to do with the speed of the PC that it is running on.  Check
out how input is handled and the number of system calls for each input
character!

I'm working on it.

	Lee
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