Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:41:27 -0500 From: Barry Lustig <barry@lustig.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "iowait" CPU state Message-ID: <20001115204128.12980.qmail@devious.lustig.com> In-Reply-To: <200011151730.KAA12666@usr01.primenet.com> References: <200011151730.KAA12666@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I'm always tempted to set up a company where the main > engineers have a centralized batch compile server, so as to > not slow down developement, but requiring that they run no > better than a 386SX/16 on their desktop. If they are good, > I'd give them a full 8M of real RAM, instead of 4M. > That's what they did at NeXT. The engineers got machines with slower processors and small amounts of RAM. It was designed to encourage them to produce fast efficient code. barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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