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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:30:06 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
To:        p.richards@elsevier.co.uk
Cc:        syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Curio
Message-ID:  <199608230430.OAA24521@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au>

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Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> writes:

>"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:
>
>> > How long does it take you to do a build of just the kernel?
>> 
>> Time to build GENERIC is:
>> 
>>       215.46 real       185.40 user        16.25 sys
>
>Hmm, I remember when it used to take 1/2 hour and I was so impressed
>that my 486 with 16Mb was so fast, I bet the kernel was much smaller
>in those days too.

Obviously we're not adding enough bloat! :-)

We need to add tons more stuff to the kernel.  I reckon we should add
telnetd, innd, pgp and, say, quake.  That should just about do it.

>Scary thing is, we're only talking 2 years ago.

Yeah, 2 years ago the Internet had just hit the hump of its spectacular
decline.  Or spectacular ascent, if you are an AOLer.

Stephen.


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