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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (99700000)
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Subject: Re: Kernel build times, esp. on Amdahl
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 15:21:41 EDT
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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.

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