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From: acb@sheriff.mavericks.bt.co.uk (Alex Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 27 Aug 1995 12:12:57 GMT
Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK
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In article <41n97o$noa@gate.sinica.edu.tw> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes:

>     Okaaaayyy... where's the guy who had a 386sx/16 with 4 megs of
> RAM, NFS-mounted swap, source and object trees, and managed to
> complete a "make world" after six straight days of compiling?  ;-)

As I already posted about running 386BSD 0.0 on a 386sx, well I'm
currently running NetBSD-current on the same machine, except I
now have 8Mb ram and 600Mb disks.

It takes me 4 days to perform a "make build"!

Funnliy enough I'm considering a 486 motherboard 8-)

Besides wasn't the original aim of unix that small is beautiful.
Guess those GNU boys blew that one away!

Alex.