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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!bt!usenet 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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <ACB.95Aug27131257@sheriff.mavericks.bt.co.uk> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug21224101@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <KSTAILEY.95Aug22093652@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <41fjmp$6ei@reason.cdrom.com> <41n97o$noa@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: sheriff.mavericks.bt.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw's message of 26 Aug 1995 13:57:12 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:816 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4848 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.