Subject: Re: Trouble booting on Multia
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/29/1998 17:07:03
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

> I mean, obviously it's much faster. Is it fast enough to be "perky"? Is it
> "ok"? How would it's speed be described?

I'd describe the AXPpci33 as `slow.' It takes more than 24 hours
to do a full system build, and even a kernel compile is over an
hour. For those of us used to Pentiums, this hurts pretty badly.

cjs

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