> 
> > But then, original BSD was developed on machines which needed all of
> > the weekend for a kernel, _without_ -O.
> 
> BSD4.3 - IBM RT - thta took a while. :)
> 
Actually, compiling a tailored 4.3BSD Release kernel on a 11/750
took about 6 hours on RA81 disks, but only four with RM80. Disk speed
are significant, obviously.
A kernel under 4.2BSD on a 11/780 only took about an hour to compile.
But that was _long_ time ago :-)

-- Ragge