Unix on top of/in parallel with other operating systems

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Mon Mar 3 13:48:00 AEST 1986


> In terms of performance, DG/UX seems faster for normal job mixes, though I
> suspect that AOS/VS wins in cases like large fortranish finite element
> cases, because you have more tuning capability.

Huh?  For CPU-bound jobs, the only difference should be in OS overhead.  If
you have only one process running, UNIX definitely doesn't impose much
overhead and I'd be very surprised if AOS/*VS imposed much either.  There
may be more overhead in context-switching and the like.  There may be more
overhead in doing the I/O to read or write the data in under UNIX, I dunno.
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	Guy Harris
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