Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!goofy.apple.com!esmith From: esmith@goofy.apple.com (Eric Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: two questions about the 3b1 Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 22:34:13 GMT References: <24776@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Frobozz Magic Widget Company Lines: 27 In-reply-to: andersom@boulder.Colorado.EDU's message of 15 Aug 90 05:49:34 GMT In article <24776@boulder.Colorado.EDU> andersom@boulder.Colorado.EDU (ANDERSON MARC O) writes: [1] - Is it just me (or my machine) or does it take all of you 3b1'ers a half an hour to compile small stuff with g++? (gnu c++) It took about 30 minutes to compile a simple program like: main() { cout << "anarchy!!!\n"; } which doesn't seem right... (oh yeah... with an #include at the beginning).... Sounds like you don't have enough physical RAM. I hope you have more than 1 MB. One time I accidentally booted my 7300 without the combo board installed, so it had only .5 M. I'm told that earlier releases of the OS ran OK with that little memory, but 3.51 took almost half an hour to boot. The stock disk drives in 3B1s and 7300s are dog slow, so you want as much physical memory as possible to minimize swapping. -- Eric L. Smith Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those esmith@apple.com of my employer, friends, family, computer, or even me! :-)