>>>I have an old DECStation 5000/133 that where I rebuild netbsd-current
>>>from time to time.
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> 
>>that's interesting numbers; the slowest machine i run NetBSD on is an
>>Amiga 1200 with 68040/40 and 128MByte RAM
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> 
> My guess is that the DECStation has less memory.

yap, sounds reasonable. as soon as my machine got it's SCSI adaptor i'll
repeat the build -- should be faster than doing it with IDE (more free
CPU cycles when SCSIng along :)