Subject: Is the IIci _really_ this slow?
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/01/1998 17:21:17
Hello,

I came from a world of PeeSeas and Sparcs, and happened across some Mac
IIci's that were on their way to the trashcan.  I set one up to be my
dialup box (IPNAT and pppd) since I heard that their serial ports can
actually do 33.6k (or better on a good day), which the Sun serial ports
cannot do.

I decided to compile a custom kernel, and to my surprise, this thing takes
well over an hour to put one together, possibly over two hours.  I didn't
note the time at which this compile started (which is still going, btw),
and I'm not about to stop it just so that I can time(1) it.

Is this normal for a IIci?  My Sparc IPX `only' takes ~45 mins to compile
a kernel of equiv size as this, and I thought _that_ was tf-slow.

-- Rob
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