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posted by martyb on Monday March 20 2017, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by zocalo on Monday March 20 2017, @06:37PM (1 child)

    by zocalo (302) on Monday March 20 2017, @06:37PM (#481664)
    Optimization of Xenix 386 - How not to do it!
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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 20 2017, @07:43PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 20 2017, @07:43PM (#481712)

    Hes probably still compiling. Contemporary with the recent Xenix theme, way back in '93 I had a 40 MHz 386DX with 4 one meg SIMMs. You see back then each SIMM only provided 8 bits and 386 being a 32 bit bus, yeah, so SIMMs were installed in quads not pairs like today. Now 4 megs of ram could either run xwindows at 640x480 or so, OR I could add a couple megs of swap (like 4 or so) and compile a kernel in about two hours. I found some 256K SIMMs laying around for the taking because 1 meg 286 was kinda passe by '93 or so, and I installed all four bringing be up to 5 megs. The speed up on kernel compiles was much better than linear with memory and I used a lot less swap and a compile now only took maybe a half hour, which is a pretty good deal seeing as I paid "free" for the 256K SIMMs.

    Maybe a few years later (but not many, like '94, '95 or so) I vaguely remember saving up quite a pile of money, like a months rent, and buying 4 meg simms such that I could install 4 of them to get 16 megs AND install the four 1 meg simms (removing the 256K simms) leaving me with a staggering 20 megs of ram. Which is a hell of a lot seeing as 40 meg IDE PATA drive was installed. I may have upgraded to a 120 meg IDE by then.