Re: reading manpages [was Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system]

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 05:21:50PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
>> > As snj@ commented on source-changes-d, even on a shark [...]
>>
>> A shark?  Try an hp300.  Or a sun2.  Or the good old trusty
>> MicroVAX-II.  The shark is actually a moderately fast machine.
>
> Sorry, the slowest I have is a Tadpole I need to update at some point.
> You can try it yourself -- src/external/bsd/mdocml is self-contained.
> The only other numbers I have is for an older version of mdocml with
> raidctl(8) on a fast VAX -- it took 0.37s for that. raidctl(8) is 10% of
> the size of gcc(1).
>

Aren't these exactly the same platforms that would probably sacrifice
some user-interaction speed for decent space savings?