Re: NetBSD/vax current

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2014-04-18 19:07, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:07:05PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > Johnny Billquist skrev 2014-04-13 21:21:
> > > On 2014-04-13 18:27, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > > >    Let's keep this port alive!
> > >
> > > You are going to be soooo disappointed. Trying to just build a kernel on
> > > the 11/785 will take an estimated two weeks. Really.
> > > It's not really doable on the 8650 any more either. :-(
> > Probably much longer.  Generating NetBSD 1.2 release took two weeks (on an
> > 780).  11 days to compile the system and 2 days to gzip the tarballs.
>
> Right, so, this points out something which seems obvious to me but perhaps
> it's not: *Of course* it takes longer, because the workload is not at all
> the same.

Ayup. 30 seconds from entering username until I get a password prompt is 
clearly asking the system to do much more today than in the past, so 
obviously it is just as expected, and nothing to even talk about.

        Johnny

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