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From: malcolm@spar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fastest Kernel Make
Message-ID: <633@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 19:31:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: spar.633
Posted: Sun Aug 30 19:31:25 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 31-Aug-87 03:56:02 EDT
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Reply-To: malcolm@spar.UUCP (Malcolm Slaney)
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research - CASLAB
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Summary: Make of Entire System on Sequent took 3hours (Correction)

In article <26853@sun.uucp> ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems) 
>    I am curious about kernel make times. Last week I had been to the
>    local Unix user group (called SVnet - Silicon Valley ...) where
>    Ron Parson - Sequent's  Marketing Mgr gave a presentation on
>    Balance 21XXX.  He claimed that a kernel make on the Balance
>    is ~3hrs.  
This number (3 hours) was to make the ENTIRE system.  This includes
the kernel, man pages, user programs and everything else.  Amdahl (and
previous discussions on the net) were talking about just the kernel.

								Malcolm