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[T. Joseph CARTER]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 08:11:51AM -0800, Bob Miller 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.

You do recall how many gigabytes are required to compile XFree86 nowadays?