On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 02:28:12PM -0600, Roger Ivie wrote:
> Well, my little 3100/30 with 4MB of memory is now 24 hours into a kernel
> build. It has only invoked cc ten times so far. This is apparently going
> to take a while.

Back then, when BSD was REAL BSD and VAXen where REAL VAXEN, the CSRG at
UCB would start a kernel build --- without any -O! --- at Friday afternoon
and leave for the weekend.

On Mondays they would check whether it succeeded, backup the old kernel,
and try to boot the new one.

if (new_kernel_boots) {
	They_had_4.5_days_for_further-development();
} else {
	They_booted_the_old_kernel();
	They_had_4.5_days_for_bug_hunting();
}

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