On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> >  > so VAX ELF is not self-hosting yet?
> > It may be now -- we've been cross-building while shaking out the
> > toolchain
> > bugs, and it's certainly a lot faster then doing it natively.
> Hmm. I see. You are not a real VAX geek:
> http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/vaxgeektop10.html
> TOP TEN SIGNS THAT YOU'RE A VAX GEEK
> 9. When talking about building software you make reference to
>    compilation times in weeks and days instead of minutes and seconds.
>
> May it be possible to make one of this buils available as a snapshot?
> I am running a 1.5X kernel on my VS4k90 with 1.5 userland and that is
> suffering from various bugs. (Kernel crashes on high FS IO, rbootd does
> not work, tcpdump dumps not IP packets, but its own core, ...)

I wonder how far off multiprocessing is on the 6000 or the 7000.  Some of
those machines would build fast even by today's standards.

Peace...  Sridhar