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[Bob Miller]

T. Joseph CARTER wrote:

> After all, if compiling X take hours on
> an "old" 1GHz P4, how long do you think it's going to take on a 16MHz
> Atari--or even a 66MHz overclocked Amiga?

At Convex, we did semiweekly builds of X11.  Mondays and Wednesdays.
It ran on a 25 MHz machine (Convex C-Series architecture) being
timeshared among 30+ developers, and the build took a bit over 24
hours.  The build included Motif, I think.  This was around 1989-1991.

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