23 Oct
2007
23 Oct
'07
6:01 p.m.
On 10/24/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <471E85C0.4050703 at gmail.com>,
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster 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.
-ethan
My compile on the VAXstation 2000 was at least a
few days. Maybe a week.
Are we talking *just* the kernel here, or are we talking compiling a
full distribution (all the utility programs, shell programs, X server,
X clients, etc.).
I have a really hard time believing it takes a few days *just* to
compile the kernel. Toss in the huge pile of additional programs
accessible from the shell or the X Window System and now we're talking
believable.