On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:41:15PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:06:33AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:59:56 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > > Got you beat. Compiled world on a 100MHz Pentium with 40 MB of RAM. > > > > I think I can: FreeBSD 4 on a Pentium 1 with 64 MB EDO RAM. > > The make buildworld took 24 hours. The kernel itself, if I > > remember correctly, required 3-5 hours, of course without > > much tweaking. :-) > > Luxury! > > I once compiled a custom kernel of NetBSD/i386 on a 486 with 8MB of RAM. > I was stuck with the GENERIC kernel which took up over 6MB just to boot. > > It took over 40 days to finish. > > To be fair it didn't help that I had to move out of my apartment in the > middle. So it took some time for make to refigure out where had been in > the build. > > Heck, we used to compile gcc and watch movies. It took three movies to > get through a full recursive compile of gcc. Yep, 6 hours. > > And then there was that occasion one night watching a guy logged into an > Ultrix box: Raise your hand if you've ever seen 'ps' report that it had > itself been swapped out. Yep, again. > > Ah, good times. > > I think I still have some memory _chips_ (zip scrams, not dips) around > here somewhere....
You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of metal stuck in it as a power source. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
