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Xref: sserve comp.os.minix:22387 comp.os.386bsd.misc:528 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3379 comp.os.linux:45654 Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!cmcl2!nyu!fox From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc In-Reply-To: cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu's message of 29 Jun 93 16:01:45 GMT Message-ID: <FOX.93Jun29142638@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> Sender: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person) Nntp-Posting-Host: graphics.cs.nyu.edu Organization: New York University References: <C8wC29.9qq@world.std.com> <201f9p$kkv@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <203s5k$j9u@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <C9E4J4.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 19:26:38 GMT Lines: 18 In article <C9E4J4.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes: >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. What a breakthrough! If you want your kernel to compile twice as fast, use a compiler that's twice as dumb or leave out half the functionality. You guys should write a paper for usenix. I believe this is called the "New Jersey style" of programming. This is as opposed to the "Cambridge style". I wonder how long it takes to compile Plan 9 on a 386 laptop? -david