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On 29 Feb 2004, at 02:19, Peter da Silva wrote: >> Yeah, that's definitely nice. I'd consider that except my main >> machine is >> a dual celeron, and it takes at least 12 hours just to compile >> xfree86. > > Wimp. Last year I installed Mac OS X on a Powermac 7500 with a 132MHz > pre-G3 processor and 96M RAM, and then tried to compile Tcl 8.4. Just > to see how bad it was. > > The install took 20 hours. > > I gave up on the compile. > I have one of those, runnong the original 100 mhz 601 CPU, it took just 8 hours to compile perl on it (running debian) ArthurThere's stuff above here
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