jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) (03/18/85)
The October Bell Technical Journal* has an article that describes the
performance improvements that have been made to Unix over the years.
One item is the use of the KMC11 front end processor to reduce the
interrupt overhead on Vax computers equipped with DZ11 type tty ports.
The article says the thru-put can be boosted to better than what can be
achieved with DH interfaces.
Our European office has many Vaxes that are, because of maintenance
requirements, equipped with DZs. These systems are rather slow, in part
because of the DZ interrupt overhead.
Does anybody have or know of an available KMC11 driver? The systems
are VAX-750 and Vax-780 running 4.1BSD. Modifying a driver from another
Unix version is a possibility though a 4.1 version would be best.
Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
{hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry
* AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, October 1984 Vol.63 No.8
Part 2; "The Evolution of UNIX System Peformance" by J. Feder;
Page 1807.long@ittvax.UUCP (H. Morrow Long [Systems Center]) (03/20/85)
> > Does anybody have or know of an available KMC11 driver? The systems > are VAX-750 and Vax-780 running 4.1BSD. Modifying a driver from another > Unix version is a possibility though a 4.1 version would be best. > > Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC I would appreciate any information on a 4.2bsd version of a KMC11 driver. -- H. Morrow Long ITT-ATC Systems Center, 1 Research Drive Shelton, CT 06484 Phone #: (203)-929-7341 x. 634 path = {allegra bunker ctcgrafx dcdvaxb dcdwest ucbvax!decvax duke eosp1 ittral lbl-csam milford mit-eddie psuvax1 purdue qubix qumix research sii supai tmmnet twg uf-cgrl wxlvax yale}!ittvax!long