On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:54:52PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > > takes to compile a kernel on my 200MHz 604e is long enough to > > > watch an entire movie. On TV. With commercials. > > > >Hmmm... Apple system with crippled slow memory bus? My LongTrail > >has the same CPU, but compiling a kernel doesn't take that long. > > *Mumble grumble* Almost all commodity computers come with crippled > memory buses, some more crippled (like the old ibooks*) than others. > You get what you pay for, machines with uncrippled buses, even a > measly Samsung Alpha box (256 bit with 100 MHz DDR-RAM), cost an arm > and a leg.
Also, as in the case of the logntrail, only a happy few could buy it back then, and it is no more produced . Friendly, Sven Luther
