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Xref: sserve comp.os.minix:22347 comp.os.386bsd.misc:488 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3181 comp.os.linux:44318 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!messua!dak From: dak@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc Date: 21 Jun 1993 08:40:20 GMT Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <203s5k$j9u@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <1993Jun19.125224.17510@colorado.edu> <C8wC29.9qq@world.std.com> <201f9p$kkv@klaava.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes: >In article <C8wC29.9qq@world.std.com> jimr@world.std.com (James A Robinson) writes: >To give minix some credit: Bruce Evans told me he was able to recompile >the kernel in less than one minute if I remember correctly. Of course, >he has a reasonably fast machine and minix sources are smaller, but the >main time-saver is that the minix (and coherent) C-compilers are much >faster than gcc... Not that I would trade the compilers, but if you are >looking for speed of compilation, minix and coherent both do it faster >than either linux or 386bsd (at the expense of features and code >quality). And to give another one credit: I believe that the original Oberon system (windowing OS, OO-variant of Modula-2-compiler...) was able to recompile itself in the matter of a few seconds. (CPU NS32032 or similar). Of course this is a minimalistic working environment, nedding only a few 100k in toto. (If I remember right, about 250k, including compiler, editor and loader). BTW, one of the persons to credit is Niklaus Wirth, and I've forgotten the name of the other one. -- David Kastrup dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502 Goethestr. 20, W-5100 Aachen, Germany