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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BEYOND DOS ? WHAT NEXT !
Message-ID: <1537@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 89 15:00:29 GMT
References: <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>, munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes:
|  It was ridiculously SLOW. ls takes 5 to 10 seconds. hello world in C
|  took over half a minute to compile (without errors), on introducing an
|  error it took around a minute before giving the error message.

  I just timed cc of hello.c on Xenix and got 7sec 1st compile, 3.6 2nd
compile. Moderately loaded 386/25, two modems running uucp as I type.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon