Why UNIX I/O is so slow (was VAX vs SUN 4 performance)

[Alan Klietz]

In article <441 at mn-at1.k.mn.org> alan at mn-at1.UUCP (0000-Alan Klietz) writes:
< The ANSI X3T9 IPI
<(Intelligent Peripheral Interface) is now a full standard and starts
<at 10 Mb/s and goes up to 25 Mb/s in the current configurations.
       ^^^^                ^^^^^^^
That's "megabytes" per second, not "megabits" per second.
(80-200 Mbits/s == 10-25 Mbytes/s).   Sorry for the confusion.

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