Re: Address of second TMSCP controller

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>]

Den 2021-01-26 kl. 15:56, skrev David Brownlee:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 14:31, Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost> wrote:
> > Den 2021-01-26 kl. 15:12, skrev David Brownlee:
> > > If you're looking for a possibly interesting benchmark to run, you
> > > could build a distribution with NOPIC defined and compare how long it
> > > takes to boot (binaries will be bigger, but you lose the dynamic
> > > linking overhead which I think is quite high on NetBSD/vax)
> > Note that compiling the NetBSD 1.2 distribution on an 11/780 took 11
> > days (and two additional days to gzip).
> > Thinking of the speed of a MV2 and the size of NetBSD today it might be
> > finished this time next year :-)
> >
> > Actually, it's not only NetBSD that is slow.  Even compiling a 4.3BSD
> > kernel on an 11/750 took a full day (around 6 hours IIRC).
> Ahh - cross-build... cross-build! a distribution... :-p
At that time cross-building 2BSD on vax was a nice thing to do :-)

-- R