On 6/8/07, Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.ltu.se>
> When I built the NetBSD 1.2 release (on a 11/780), it took 11 days to
> finish the build of the system,
> and two additional days to gzip the tarballs :-)
>
> -- Ragge
>

That's a beautiful thing, especially the amount of time spent doing
disk I/O.  On a machine like that, nomenclature such as "job",
"spool", and "drum" transcend the realm of terminology for formal
reality.

Personally, I've always been rooting for the S/390 port. ;)


--Blair