In message <20030929182549.GA13138@mail.devonit.com>, Dan Melomedman writes:
>Rick Kelly wrote:
>> I'm impressed with this new box. A Duron 1.3ghz is a lot faster than a
>> P200 MMX! With the old box, it took about 9.5 hours to build.
>
>We shouldn't forget running newer software on old hardware is nice once in
>a while to judge the bloat. I think these fast CPUs make developers lazy.
>
>Wonder how long it takes to compile just the kernel on P200.
>
Indeed.  On a 400 Mhz machine of mine, I gave up trying to get some 
pkgsrc-based nonsense fixed, and I decided to rebuilt to a new, clean,
/usr/pkg.  About a day later, I've rebuilt 214 of the 381 packages I 
had had.  It's doing Mozilla now; I don't plan to check the total count 
for a while...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb