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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:

> Hmmm. Has anyone done some benchmarks on this beast and how well does it 
> compare to other OS's on the same hardware?
> 
> 
> 	Stephen

  Rumours are that it is not good.  AFAIK, Oracle is written with threads
and/or AIO.  It seems to use its own user mode thread library (just like
the Solid DBMS), which gives it mediocre multiuser performance (also just
like Solid).

Tom


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