Subj : processing power required..
To   : August Abolins
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Aug 30 2026 05:17 pm

Hej August!

> I guess it's just busy compiling to create its own environment to
> compile the next version, which is used to compile the next, and the
> next?

Sadly that's the way it has become.  However it wasn't all that long ago that 
everything I needed for hacking fit onto a 256M disk, back then a compactflash 
disk.  What later became known as ssd's were way too expensive back then.  
Having ramdisks available made all the difference.  That should explain my 
attraction to them.

> Xeon 8-core CPU

By my standards 16G minimum ram available.  32G would be perfect since that 
allows for at least a 16G ramdisk or two 8G ramdisks on demand.  :-)

> allowing your Snow Leopard Mac to function on the modern web.

The web sucks.  Way too needy for what little it has to offer.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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