23 Oct
2007
23 Oct
'07
6:10 p.m.
In article <f4eb766f0710231801p53c62cd0o434e9ea87338e7c4 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
Sridhar can answer for the details of his VS2000, but
in my case, the
two machines I have the most experience with are the 11/750 and
11/730, and Ultrix 1.1 (4.2BSD under the hood, IIRC). It may be that
I didn't do a complete compile from source, just a kernel rebuild of
drivers and affected areas from the installation process, and it may
be that the disk on a VS2000 is vastly slower than Unibus and IDC
disks on the 11/750 and 11/730, respectively. I do stand by my 8-10
hour kernel compile time after an initial install of the OS on a blank
disk for those machines - if my memories have not entirely
disintegrated, it took all of a long work day to install Ultrix, but
not more than one.
I thought those unix kernels were supposed to be little itty bitty
simply pieces of software. I had no idea they were so bloated.
As for the X Window System, I've compiled the whole thing and worked
on the server itself. I know that's a huge honkin pile of stuff and
it woudln't surprise me that compiling any distribution after X11R4
from scratch would take you all day. In 1990 I was
regularly
compiling chunks of the X Window System, usually the server, on a MIPS
R3000 CPU @ 25 MHz. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't blindingly fast
either. There's simply a huge pile of code in X11, or even just the
server.
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