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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 32 Bit HPFS
- Keywords: HPFS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.181023.20211@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:10:23 GMT
- References: <Bzs0w4.5I6@Novell.COM>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <Bzs0w4.5I6@Novell.COM> Doug_Smith@Novell.COM (J. Douglas Smith) writes:
- >Will the new 2.1 release have the 32 bit HPFS included?
-
- No. HPFS386 is a part of LAN Server. (It also provides some extra
- features necessary for multiuser operation -- it isn't just a 32-bit
- HPFS rewrite.)
-
- Lest anyone panic, 32-bit purely for the sake of 32-bit isn't such a
- hot idea. For one, you have to spend time debugging. (In other
- words, why tamper with code that is working so well?) For another, it
- isn't all that clear that you'd get much performance boost. (A disk
- -- any disk -- is relatively slow, in computer terms. There's usually
- very little CPU involved in disk I/O, and CPU intensive operations is
- precisely where you get the biggest performance boost with 32-bit
- code.)
-
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