[olug] nostalgia

[Eric Penne]

I was pretty hot stuff with my Pentium 90 - 8MB of ram in late 1994.  I 
only had time for supper and some chit chat when I compiled my kernel. 
Of course I was on the 11th floor of the dorm and we would walk over to 
the lunch room, eat for a while, walk back, and wait a few minutes.  I 
think it took about hour and 15 minutes.  When I upgraded to 16MB of ram 
that went down to like 45 minutes to do the same compile.

My friend did all his stuff on a 486 with 64MB of ram and it "felt" 
faster than mine for doing day to day stuff but his compiles still took 
longer.

Eric Penne

Jordan Wilberding wrote:
> Try doing it with 2 megs of RAM :(
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:28, thehaas at binary.net wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 06:14:17AM -0700, Sean Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>Did you ever try compiling the kernel on a 386SX with
>>>8MB RAM?  Man, was that painful!
>>
>>486SX with 8MB -- painful enough. I would star the compile, then go to
>>bed or out for the night.  
> 
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