franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) (09/21/87)
In article <6920@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes: |In article <2473@xanth.UUCP) kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: |)To put it another way, graph the time to load ls(1) versus date of the |)version for the versions mentioned and the systems on which they run, |)and weep. |) |)For an example close to home, my Amiga is doing good if it can drag |)programs off a hard disk at 30K bytes/second over an SCSI interface. |)[...] | |Again, if you take into account the changing conditions that exist in |computer technology, things look much better. 30KB/sec is horribly |slow for a Unix system [...] Not necessarily. True, I/O speeds are improving; but so are processor speeds. And my impression is that the processors are improving faster than the I/O. If so, the problem will only get worse with time. (Unless you think a time will come when most computer systems are underutilized.) -- Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Ashton-Tate 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108