> RH 6.2 beta it spent about ten minutes in the 'Preparing to install'
> screen and this was on a Cyrix 166+ who is supposed to have about
> three times the horsepower of a 486 DX2 66.  That would have meant 30
> minutes on a 486.   Quite simply unbearable.

A text mode install took about 2 hours on a 486DX here.

> egcs -mpentium is nowadays just a marketing trick: it brings enough
> improvements for looking good in benchmarks but the user will not even
> notice them.

With gcc 2.9x->3.0 they will

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