On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:57:00 -0400, Bill Fairchild wrote:

>Speed Matching Buffer, probably.

I always thought it would have been more appropriately called a "Speed
Reducing Buffer".  It didn't really match the speed of the device to the
speed of the channel, but only reduced the speed to 1.5 MB/second.  It was
pretty common to get overruns when doing I/O through the SMB.

-- 
Tom Marchant

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Reply via email to