Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!saturn!ucscc.UCSC.EDU!haynes From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (99700000) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Kernel build times, esp. on Amdahl Message-ID: <531@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 15:21:41 EDT Article-I.D.: saturn.531 Posted: Wed Jul 8 15:21:41 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 10:47:48 EDT References: <502@winchester.UUCP> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) Organization: California State Home for the Weird Lines: 13 Keywords: benchmarks Xref: mnetor comp.arch:1589 comp.unix.wizards:3204 In article <502@winchester.UUCP> mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) writes: >I've been intrigued by Amdahl's recent recuriting ads that say they >build a UNIX kernel in 3 minutes. Can anybody from Amdahl say: I haven't seen the ads, but it has bothered me for years that we could compile the 'kernel' of the Burroughs 5500 MCP from scratch in about 20 minutes (from scratch being the only way you could compile it), yet on hardware 20 years younger it takes hours to compile a Unix kernel of about the same size. haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu haynes@ucscc.bitnet ..ucbvax!ucscc!haynes