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The performance of new operating systems is always less than optimal
and KSOS-11 was no exception.

Shortly after its introduction in 1978, KSOS-11 acquired a reputation
for "poor performance," although no formal benchmark results were ever
published. This reputation was derived from a set of benchmarks
running Unix programs using the KSOS Unix Emulator. Its performance
was much slower than the comaprison system (6th Edition Unix), but
this was almost entirely due to the admittedly slow Unix Emulator. In
addition, the "legend" of the performance was exaggerated at every
retelling, until it took on epic proportions, with some people laterw
insisting that the performance of KSOS was 1/1000th of Unix!

The actual performance of the Security Kernel was not examined until
[Perr84]. In this paper it was shown that the performance of the
system was not near as bad the legend. In fact, the performance of
programs running directly on the Kernel was comparable to an untuned
Unix system, except for process creation and file creation. This paper
will discuss some specific performance enhancements made since this
period and the performance of KSOS-32, a VAX-based version of the
system.
