On 07/15/2016 11:10 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > We don't appreciate how much faster modern PCs are than the old > ones, because modern PC OSes are so appallingly slow and bloated.
Reminds me of a conversation that I had with Greg Mansfield back in the mid-80s when he was working for Cray. I was grousing about the time spent recompiling the BSD kernel on a VAX 11/750, even when streamlining the process through partial recompilation (i.e. compiling only those parts needing it). Greg was working with, IIRC, UniCOS at the time and confided that on an X/MP he didn't bother with partial recompilation--there was no practical time savings realizable. Flash back to 1975 when recompiling the STAR OS kernel on a dedicated STAR 1B took all night--assuming that the machine stayed up that long. --Chuck
