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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.arch,comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: benchmarking discussion at Usenix?
Date: 5 Jan 1997 17:16:30 GMT
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lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) wrote:

> 	. osbench
> 		- Steve Kleiman suggested that I (or someone) grab a big hunk
> 		 of OS code and port it to userland and call it osbench.  This
> 		 is an interesting idea.

Only curious: what are the goals for this?

[No, i certainly can't afford to come to Usenix. :)]
-- 
cheers, J"org

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