OT: why are LAMP sites slow?

[Al Dykes]

In article <g9ibd2-kuf.ln1 at eskimo.tundraware.com>,
Tim Daneliuk  <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> writes:
>> 
>>>I worked for an Airline computer reservation system (CRS) for almost a
>>>decade. There is nothing about today's laptops that remotely comes close
>>>to the power of those CRS systems, even the old ones. CRS systems are
>>>optimized for extremely high performance I/O and use an operating system
>>>(TPF) specifically designed for high-performance transaction processing.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, I've been interested for a while in learning a little bit about
>> how TPF worked.  Does Gray's book that you mention say much about it?
>
>I honestly do not recall.  TPF/PAARS is an odd critter unto itself
>that may not be covered by much of anything other than IBM docs.

I've seen it covered in some textbook, possibly something by Tanenbaum. 
I imagine it's in the ACM literature and the IBM Systems Journal.  

If we move this thread to alt.folklore.computers we'll get lots of
good info.

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