Post AqKD9bcII4XHsp8Sm0 by bytex64@awesome.garden
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(DIR) Post #AqK9FZc6Fe4tajdQ7E by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-22T00:49:25Z
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Watching this video on installing 1993 Slackware on a period computer, and the amazing thing is that their 386 compiles the kernel in half an hour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tHBZkYzM4k
(DIR) Post #AqK9IUC8r1rRedskHg by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-22T00:49:59Z
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I now want to go through different kernel versions and time how long they take to compile on period-accurate hardware
(DIR) Post #AqK9Lr8U167PfomH68 by swetland@chaos.social
2025-01-22T00:50:27Z
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@foone The Linux kernel was a *lot* smaller back in the day...
(DIR) Post #AqK9guaGOMkSRsoO4u by nabijaczleweli@101010.pl
2025-01-22T00:54:20Z
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@foone that's basically the upper end of how long you'd expect it to take now for a reasonable config?
(DIR) Post #AqK9k8koAG1HGVHdHU by XenoPhage@infosec.exchange
2025-01-22T00:54:34Z
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@foone is this Slackware 1.0? I still have this cd sitting on my shelf!
(DIR) Post #AqK9nk5lnaI1w5o1Pk by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-22T00:55:39Z
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@XenoPhage 1.1.1!
(DIR) Post #AqKA7YjFkxWqU9itRg by yon@sakurajima.moe
2025-01-22T00:59:07Z
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@foone I compiled the Linux kernel on a P90 back in 1996. And a dual P100 slightly later:) It was kinda part of what you did. To get the right drivers etc.
(DIR) Post #AqKApH3UpLxKPi2KEy by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-22T01:07:03Z
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@yon oh yeah, I did that too. I ran a linux server as a router in '99, and had to compile the kernel quite a few times. But I remember it taking about half an hour, even on much faster hardware (AMD K6-300) than this 33mhz 386.
(DIR) Post #AqKAsSYqVR5QxzDdxI by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-22T01:07:29Z
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I suspect that "about 30 minutes" has been relatively constant since the early 90s
(DIR) Post #AqKBFGJUD0yTdouLKK by tofu@is-a.cat
2025-01-22T01:11:47Z
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@foone What is period accurate hardware even? I mean, would you consider a HEDT manycore chip to be contemporary now? In that case, it would take far less to compile the kernel.
(DIR) Post #AqKBsCsitxW8I9xZOi by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-22T01:18:52Z
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@tofu good question. because this 33mhz 386 in '93 isn't "period accurate", really: a low-end 486 was quite affordable in that time (that's how my family ended up with one!), and Pentiums were right around the corner/already available
(DIR) Post #AqKCIMb5OzAnxABO64 by pwbrooks@friend.camp
2025-01-22T01:23:31Z
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@foone Yeah, I remember Slack 96 taking somewhere around that long on my Pentium 90
(DIR) Post #AqKCR1PdXG5gr9xKIy by efi@chitter.xyz
2025-01-22T01:25:06Z
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@foone the bottleneck might just be the speed of light
(DIR) Post #AqKCVNWjFyC2bLLnqS by Canageek@wandering.shop
2025-01-22T01:25:47Z
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@foone damn that is fast, I remember compiling some physics software to do energy calibrations on a specific detector type and 2011, on an old....I think it was a Pentium 4 but it might have been something slightly newer than that, since the undergrad of course got the slowest computer, and I recall it took 10 or 15 minutes just for this small math focused application
(DIR) Post #AqKCcqwcHV0Vri1Vya by vurpo@mastodon.coffee
2025-01-22T01:27:15Z
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@foone I did 15 minutes on my desktop around 10 years ago! But it's definitely always been in the same order of magnitude at least
(DIR) Post #AqKD9bcII4XHsp8Sm0 by bytex64@awesome.garden
2025-01-22T01:33:07Z
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@foone That sounds about right. But there are some steps in that graph. I recall there being a big jump between 2.2 and 2.4, and again to 2.6.
(DIR) Post #AqKDbGTOUlRKPrA4VE by yon@sakurajima.moe
2025-01-22T01:38:13Z
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@foone The faster the computer, the more stuff gets added :)
(DIR) Post #AqKE0yEyuD2POkg4LA by viking@noauthority.social
2025-01-22T01:43:18Z
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@foone With a S3 graphics card, it was 1994 or 1995 before X-windows worked.
(DIR) Post #AqKGkMJMSSe6zXUrD6 by MedeaVanamonde@chaosfem.tw
2025-01-22T02:13:24Z
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@foone ouchYeah that took me backSlammed my head into The fixtures
(DIR) Post #AqKIu11Uf5LNlts6Ns by juddy@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T02:37:33Z
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@foone SMP=1 will land with a mighty thud
(DIR) Post #AqKJQrqFonheqvHOAi by rotopenguin@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T02:43:30Z
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@foone I don't believe that a 386 could have done "make mrproper" inside of a half-hour