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Wow, thanks for that detailed reply, I'd wondered about old disks. Also, it's impressive it just runs for that long. Also, also that seems like a small amount
by sillywalk 4y ago
Wow, thanks for that detailed reply, I'd wondered about old disks.
Also, it's impressive it just runs for that long. Also, also that seems like a small amount of RAM for compiling things these days (though I remember compiling a slackware kernel on a a 486 with 8mb of ram.). I'm assuming it's an older version of gcc
- johnklos 4y agoMost of my machines have modern disks. I think the oldest disks I run are recently purchased 70 gig 2.5" UW-320 SCSI disks for about $15 each from eBay. It's amazing how wonderfully compatible SCSI is with other SCSI. The version of gcc in NetBSD-9 is 7.5.0, and all of the architectures run the same version. gcc is a bit memory hungry, but it's telling that it can still get things done even when it doesn't have much. I'm testing NetBSD-current with gcc 10.4.0 on a Mac LC III+ with 36 megs of memory, and it was able to build perl all by itself. Granted, it took nine and a half days, but it succeeded!