Hi,

Two words:  more memory.

I often build stuff on my 540c, and it's 1/4 at most as fast as my next
slowest system, but it does build

eg: 24 hrs for ecl vs about 4 hrs for a 55mhz sparc.

cheers

bruce

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:25:59PM +0100, m.hoffman wrote:
> Hi:-) I'd like to use my old PB 540c to learn C++ programming under
> UNIX, so I've installed NetBSD 2.1 softfloat version, which was
> reported to be stable on this machine.
> 
> So I made my 4-line "hello world" program and ran 'g++ hello.C'. This
> was 28 minutes ago, but apparently, g++ still hasn't finished ;-)
> 
> Would downgrade be a proper solution? Maybe the computer is just 
> too old, or I may be doing something wrong, no idea. 
> I would be very grateful if you good people could suggest something.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Mike
> 
> (PB 540c, 68LC040 @ 33MHz, RAM is 12 MB and swap is set to 64 MB.)
> 

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