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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Shared Library Status ?
Date: 8 Mar 94 06:00:14 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2lglh5$otn@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:

>My kernel compile takes four minutes for the generic config.  For the
>full sources from scratch without the "ports" stuff, I spend right
>around 3 hours.
[...]
>This is a rather singularly useless benchmark unless you guarantee all the
>hardware is the same in all cases.

If nothing else, it tells me I *have* to upgrade my 386.  I'm
embarrassed to tell you how long it takes to build the whole source
distribution on my machine. ;-)

Anyone know if these new Cyrix 486DRX2 chips are any good?  Or if
they're going to have any compatibility problems?  (It's a direct
drop-in replacement for a 386 CPU.)

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