Re: [MiNT] NMD development report

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On Mon, 24 May 1999 09:00:34 +0300 (EEST), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> I have already sucessfully recompiled MiNTOS and MiNTNET (assides 
> from the previously mentioned compiler problems:  _huge_ binaries 
> twice the size of those generated using PL-46 -since PL-47, often

You should not complain, have you any idea of how big libc is on Linux
or FreeBSD? ;-) Things will change when we have dynamic libs.

> PS:  since purchasing this brand-new 4.5 GB, I have booted my old
> system once and everything seems just fine, except that the motor
> starts to stutter after a couple of hours being ON.   This leaves
> me just enough time to backup _one_ hierarchy at a time, per use.

Hmm, I can back up my entire 1.2Gb disk in less than an hour, even with
compression...


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