Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/rup
To: Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/09/2005 13:19:08
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Liam J. Foy wrote:

>> Heh -- one of those changes which only starts to be relevant with newer, 
>> faster machines, I guess.  Historically, of course, it has not been 
>> possible to get from boot to launch of inetd (and by extension 
>> in.rstatd) in less than one minute. :-)
>
>Printing seconds is much better than printing absolutely nothing if the
>machine is up. My 350mhz machine can boot up in less than a minute. It's
>not a fast machine =).

I wasn't questioning the utility of the change, merely noting with some 
amusement the recency of it's usefulness.  :-)

In the universe of machines NetBSD runs on, 350mhz is, in fact a fast 
machine.  That said, neither of my main NetBSD systems, one 733 MHz and 
the other 333 MHz, boot in anywhere near that short a time.  :-)

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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