Subject: RE: DEC's MSCP routines bite
To: 'David Evans' <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Reinhold J. Gerharz <rgerharz@vitro.vitro.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/07/1997 13:29:33
Maybe the tape was created using a large buffer, whereas the boot operation, being more primitive, is doing a lot of "shoe shining."
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From: David Evans[SMTP:dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 1997 09:11
To: Dave McGuire
Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca; port-vax@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: DEC's MSCP routines bite
Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> I think that's the TK50 being *REALLY* slow. :)
>
But I wrote the tape under 1.2C on the same machine in under a minute for
file1 and four or so minutes for file2.
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