Subject: Re: GPT support still needed?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/08/2007 09:33:11
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der Mouse skrev:
>> But, as I said. I'm a guy who likes to run machines that most here
>> would toss on the scrap heap right away.
>
> Me too.
:-)
>> (Right now I'm doing some work on the VAX-8650 here. Might be a
>> candidate for the physically largest machine running NetBSD.
> :-)
>> But doing a build of just tools and kernel is probably going to get
>> close to a week by now...)
>
> Ouch! And I thought my WorkPad was slow! (hpcmips, and it looks as
> though it'll take about a week to do a full build of the world - and
> that's with local disk (a microdrive).)
>
> Of course, my diskless MicroVAX-II used to take a week to do a build of
> the 1.4T world...it'd probably take what, a month?, to build 3.1...if
> it could at all.
My guess is atleast a couple of months.
I suspect the 8650 will need a month for the whole deal. If that is
correct, then a MVII will need somewhere close to 6 months. :-)
Interesting, since the 8650 was a real fast machine 20 years ago. And
4.3 Reno built very fast on that machine.
Johnny
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