On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 08:11:51AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > > After all, if compiling X take hours on > > an "old" 1GHz P4, how long do you think it's going to take on a 16MHz > > Atari--or even a 66MHz overclocked Amiga? > > At Convex, we did semiweekly builds of X11. Mondays and Wednesdays. > It ran on a 25 MHz machine (Convex C-Series architecture) being > timeshared among 30+ developers, and the build took a bit over 24 > hours. The build included Motif, I think. This was around 1989-1991.
You do recall how many gigabytes are required to compile XFree86 nowadays? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
