Advice re .5Meg upgrade

John B. Milton jbm at uncle.UUCP
Wed Dec 14 17:01:49 AEST 1988


In article <130 at halcdc.UUCP> randy at halcdc.UUCP (randy orrison) writes:
[.5M UNIXpc]
>(Quantification would be nice, e.g. compiling inews/rnews/expire/etc
>(not including readnews/postnews) takes 8 hours on my machine, and 30
>minutes on my friends 3B1 with 2.5Meg.  How long would this take with
>1Meg?)

I would say (from experience), it would be 30 minutes, if the system is idle.
You can't beleive the difference of 512k makes!


John
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