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karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > Andrew> It's worth pointing out that the machine is an > Andrew> ancient 386 with 8 megs of RAM, so it's not the speediest, > Andrew> especially when swapping. > No wonder. > My first Linux machine was a 486DX33 with 8 MB of RAM and a 540 MB > caviar hard disk. That machine took about 35-45 minutes to compile > Linux 1.0.13. Wow. Fast. Or maybe Linux 2.0.0 is bigger. I timed mine once, and it took six hours to do a kernel compile. Fortunately, it supported modules, so I made everything I might ever need into a module. Several months later, I tried to read a ZIP disk and discovered that the kernel supported it... but I digress. > The AMD K6 233 I'm running now, with 128MB RAM and > 8GB of disk, can > compile Linux 2.0.35 in about 7 minutes. > > I think you ought to look for a newer computer. Yeah. I just did (after a couple of weeks in the shop) --- and it is a lot faster. The disk is still slowish. I'm still going to be using the old one... Somebody offered me an even more ancient DECstation, but I don't really have room. Anyway, I haven't really got guile up and running yet. But the ZAngband autoroller is fast. :). Andrew