randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison) (12/13/88)
My machine at home is a 7300 with .5Meg of RAM on the motherboard. Using the C compiler (especially when anything else is going on, like uucico or rn) is excruciatingly slow. There's no way I can afford a 2Meg board right now, but I can maybe squeeze a .5Meg board into my budget. Is going from .5Meg to 1Meg going to make much difference? (Quantification would be nice, e.g. compiling inews/rnews/expire/etc (not including readnews/postnews) takes 8 hours on my machine, and 30 minutes on my friends 3B1 with 2.5Meg. How long would this take with 1Meg?) Thanks in advance! -randy -- Randy Orrison - Control Data in the Hills of Arden randy@halcdc.uucp aka randy@{ux.acss.umn.edu, umnacvx.bitnet, cctb.mn.org, umn-cs.uucp} C: The Alpha and Omega of the Zen of Programming.
jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) (12/14/88)
In article <130@halcdc.UUCP> randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison) writes: [.5M UNIXpc] >(Quantification would be nice, e.g. compiling inews/rnews/expire/etc >(not including readnews/postnews) takes 8 hours on my machine, and 30 >minutes on my friends 3B1 with 2.5Meg. How long would this take with >1Meg?) I would say (from experience), it would be 30 minutes, if the system is idle. You can't beleive the difference of 512k makes! John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu (614) h:294-4823, w:764-2933; Got any good 74LS503 circuits?