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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Advice re .5Meg upgrade
Message-ID: <445@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 07:01:49 GMT
References: <130@halcdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
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In article <130@halcdc.UUCP> randy@halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison) writes:
[.5M UNIXpc]
>(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?)

I would say (from experience), it would be 30 minutes, if the system is idle.
You can't beleive the difference of 512k makes!


John
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