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- From: meggin@epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
- Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
- Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:39:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.213923.23125@epas.toronto.edu>
- References: <725046488snx@weasel.demon.co.uk> <1992Dec22.143145.24737@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <TERJEVE.93Jan3211242@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no>
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- In article <TERJEVE.93Jan3211242@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no> terjeve@ifi.uio.no (Terje Vernly) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.143145.24737@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
- >
- >> Sorry to make you vomit, lads, but my 486DX/33 with 8Mb RAM did a
- >> complete 0.99 compilation in the background in 11 minutes, whilst
- >> running X! :-)
- >
- >My 486DX/50 also with 8Mb RAM completed the same compilation in only
- >7 minutes and 10 seconds (with X and a few other clients running).
- >
- >--
- > +----------------------------------------------------------------+
- > | Terje Vernly "The dead know only one thing : |
- > | InterNet: terjeve@ifi.uio.no It is better to be alive." |
- > +----------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Well, it used to take me a good 1/2 hour to remake the Minix kernel
- on my old 8mhz Atari ST, but then again, I didn't spend 45 minutes
- counting the seconds and composing postings about the time, so by
- my reckoning, I was still at least 22.5 minutes ahead of either of
- you. ;-)
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- David
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