Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:33:18 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: barry@Lustig.COM Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "iowait" CPU state Message-ID: <3A16149E.B2B42267@softweyr.com> References: <200011151730.KAA12666@usr01.primenet.com> <20001115204128.12980.qmail@devious.lustig.com>
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Barry Lustig wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >
> > I'm always tempted to set up a company where the main
> > engineers have a centralized batch compile server, so as to
> > not slow down developement, but requiring that they run no
> > better than a 386SX/16 on their desktop. If they are good,
> > I'd give them a full 8M of real RAM, instead of 4M.
> >
>
> That's what they did at NeXT. The engineers got machines with slower
> processors and small amounts of RAM. It was designed to encourage them to
> produce fast efficient code.
So all you guys running dual PIIIs send them to me, I'll replace them with
some lovely dual PPro's with 32MB RAM.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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