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Subject: Re: what are you running djgpp on?
Date: 23 Mar 2004 06:10:52 -0800
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Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se> wrote in message news:<405eeb5d$0$96975$cc7c7865 AT news DOT luth DOT se>...
> gswork <gswork AT mailcity DOT com> wrote:

> : no big point here, just a nod of appreciation to the scalable and
> : useful DJGPP package, and wondering if anyone has it on an even more
> : modest machine - and what you've been writing with it recently.
> 
> 386 20MHz (or was 16MHz?) with 4MB. But I don't usually develop on it 
> as it's far too slow. I do try out some of my programs on it and not 
> seldom use ls and df on it. 
> 
> I've also tried compiling DJGPP's libc on it and it takes ages (>6 
> hours). That's probably because it's memory starved and swaps all the 
> time.

I guess the memory swapping is the biggie, i suppose less demanding 32
bit apps would run fine on that machine though.