IBM to support UNIX on 4300

Guy Harris guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Thu Feb 28 17:21:22 AEST 1985


> also, IX/370, is not an exact port of Sys VR2.  the blocksize used
> for I/O is 4K.  this means much better typical I/O performance
> when compared to 1K blocks.

Actually, AT&T's own S/3[67]0 S5R2 UNIX uses 4K blocks also (lots of S5 code
has #ifdefs for "ibm" or somesuch that set block sizes to 4K).

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy



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