From: meggin@epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:39:23 GMT
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).
>
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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. ;-)
David