Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: *big iron*
Message-ID: <1989Sep26.163307.17238@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7981@cbmvax.UUCP> <11538@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <22488@cup.portal.com> <7997@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 16:33:07 GMT

In article <7997@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>... most Unix machines are handicapped by the "standard" unix fs/disk
>cache.  This cache requires them to do single-block reads, while under AmigaDos
>the filesystem can ask for large blocks and have it transfered by DMA directly
>from disk to where the application's read goes to...

It's quite possible to do this under Unix as well, of course, if you've got
kernel people who seriously care about I/O performance.
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