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In message <199505102312.QAA08704@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> you write:
>> Baring functional code, anybody have any ideas on how to procede?
>
>Major reworking of the ufs layer to do INDIAN conversion based on
>volume label magic values.  Can you say slow ufs after you do this?

Oddly enough, NeXTStep '486 does this, to keep compatibility with black 
hardware.  They didn't think it was too much of a performance hit.

  Bill