Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!xanth!nic.MR.NET!shamash!halcdc!randy
From: randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Advice re .5Meg upgrade
Message-ID: <130@halcdc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 17:14:30 GMT
Reply-To: randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison)
Organization: Control Data in the Hills of Arden, Minnesota
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My machine at home is a 7300 with .5Meg of RAM on the motherboard.
Using the C compiler (especially when anything else is going on, like
uucico or rn) is excruciatingly slow.  There's no way I can afford a
2Meg board right now, but I can maybe squeeze a .5Meg board into my
budget.  Is going from .5Meg to 1Meg going to make much difference?

(Quantification would be nice, e.g. compiling inews/rnews/expire/etc
(not including readnews/postnews) takes 8 hours on my machine, and 30
minutes on my friends 3B1 with 2.5Meg.  How long would this take with
1Meg?)

	Thanks in advance!
		-randy
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Randy Orrison - Control Data in the Hills of Arden	randy@halcdc.uucp
aka randy@{ux.acss.umn.edu, umnacvx.bitnet, cctb.mn.org, umn-cs.uucp}

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