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From: Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
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Subject: Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex
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Vern Paxson presented his work on tuning Lex at the 1987 Washington
USENIX conference. The proceedings had just an abstract, now
available here:

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/TuningUnixLex_Jacobson_USENIX_Winter_1987_pp163_164.pdf

Is the full paper available anywhere?  It looks like it'd be worthwhile
reading, even today.

Thanks,

Arnold