From: dmw@teal.csn.org (Dave Warner) Subject: Re: Compiling Kernels Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 02:01:23 GMT
drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>With GCC 1.37, 4M was suffient. However, GCC 2.x's memory usage grew with
>the version number and 4M is no longer enough. You'll have to add swap
>space. Although Linux can swap to a file, swapping to a partition will be
>MUCH faster.
I'm reminded of a product in the late 70's/early 80's
called BDS C which was an acceptable implementation of K&R
C for CP/M. It ran on my 2 MHz 8080 in less than 64K ( K
stands for kilobytes, almost a lost term in computer science
and equal to 1/1024 of a megabyte ). It would, as I recall,
compile about 300 lines a minute and generated pretty good code
for an 8 bit processor.
Ah, nostalgia! How about toggling in the boot program
to a PDP-11? Or mylar tape (no more paper tape tears)?
Punched cards (don't drop that box)? 8" floppies? Resoldering
the diodes on my keyboard to get different keys? 64X16 displays
on converted TV sets?
Oh well, back to my 66MHz, 16MB ram linux box with 340MB
disk, 17" monitor running X at 1024X768 thinking that "good
old days" might be an oxymoron.
Dave
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