From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 13:17:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA24842 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 13:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-7.mail.demon.net (relay-7.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA24836 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 13:17:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk ([158.152.17.1]) by relay-5.mail.demon.net id aa0528772; 2 Apr 97 22:14 BST Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost.lan.awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA14837; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:04:52 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199704022104.WAA14837@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: proff@suburbia.net cc: Darren Reed , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 01:21:14 +1000." <19970402152114.27776.qmail@suburbia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 22:04:52 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Yes, I remember my Pyramid fondly. It not only provided two universes, but > heated the whole house as well, drinking around $10 a day in power :) [.....] > Cheers, > Julian. Hey, don't knock it ! The company I work for has just signed a contract with pyramid (gulp). It's sad, they used to have all Sequent boxes 'till I finally managed to get them to agree to replace the development machine with a P100 running FreeBSD. Builds (using my mk program, not make) weren't just an order of magnitude quicker, they were 30 times quicker (mostly due to the unified vm stuff). Ok, the old machine was a 4x386 box... -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....