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From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: C-news on 096c/gcc2.2.2 seems to work...
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 15:30:02 -0800

 > At the risk setting off a round of flaming, I'll state
 > "the mcc-interim
 > 0.96c release kit is a good way to install a Linux
 > system with a broad
 > collection of utilities."

It was not received as a flame by me, I just seem to either not be able
to make the instructions work or have a dir/structure problem.  For some
of the past releases someone has sent out a list of what "THEY" had on
their system (ls -lr *  type list) and it helped me a bunch.

 > The installaltion procedure is direct and does not
 > require special knowledge
 > to follow.  The utility collection is sufficient for
 > mainstream "I just want
 > to get some work done" users.  It includes gcc, groff,
 > a man set, and... a
 > working PS!

I am having problems there as well.  As I have had a few folks that
wanted just the files to have Linux and GCC and was requesting a list to
download.

So I decided to backup my Linux 0.96a and reformat and repart the HD and
see just what was needed to setup that system.

The INSTALL script on the ROOT096C image was GREAT!
The relnotes with all the GCC222 files I have led me into loops and
confussion, as following them, in order trashed my system.

After someone sent me netmail with a list of what they installed and
what they ignored, I was able to get the GCC installed but not make a
Image!  No 'make' program.  I found one on my 0.12 backup set, and it
seems to work with the exception that the makefile will not put the
Major and Minor in the Image.

Now I am looking for the 'patch' program, did not find it on my 0.12 or
0.95 or 0.96 related files....

If the GCC package had in 'INSTALL' like the ROOT096C image, I am sure
Linux/GCC would find more users that would use the set.  Heck just a
accurate list of what goes where would be great!  (the install in the
GCC works, but with lots of dought hanging over your head while it does
it's thing).

Please consider the above as constructive criticism!

JimC

 * Origin: Intermittent Connection   - Eugene, OR - (1:152/35)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: Re: Getting ps to work after compiling?
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for (tungt) eple cider p} Inf. stua
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:32:05 GMT
Originator: janl@maud.ifi.uio.no


In article <1992Jul28.162607.24754@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler) writes:
> 	I have just compiled my kernel with the two patches(0.96c).  I
> have tried using 'ps -U' to update ps but it doesn't seem to work.  It
> keeps giving me a message that psdatabase is out of date.  It says I might
> have to recompile ps.  The final part of the error message says cannot
> fing /etc/system.  Well I don't have that.  What should I do?

1. Do you do ps -U as root?
2. Get the 0.96c ps package from banjo (Incoming directory)

Nicolai
From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Installation
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:08:28 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder

In article <Fu2ioB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> cmb@bluemoon.rn.com (Chris Bugosh) writes:
>(First off, I hope this isn't in one of the FAQ's that I DIDN'T get, 
>but...)
>
>I am trying to install Linux but every time I try it trips and stalls on
>a bad block.  In one of the installation text files that I have, it 
>mentions making Linux the first partition...  Did this and got the same 
>thing.  Can anyone help in this area?  Thanks.
>

When you install Linux, you want to make all of your filesystems
with mkfs -c.  "-c" tells mkfs to check for the bad blocks, which
are placed into /.badblocks so they can't be allocated for a 
normal file.

As far as installing Linux on the first partition : any partition
works.
From: vwllibmod@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XYZmodem v3.18
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:51:45 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Thu Jul 30 10:48:13 MET 1992

                        Zmodem v3.18 for Linux
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I've uploaded 'rzsz9202.dff.Z' to /pub/Linux/Incoming on banjo.concert.net.
The patch is relative to 'rzsz9202.tar-z' (can also be found in the incoming
directory on banjo or on wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors2/unix-c/xyzmodem).
The patched sources are ready to compile with GCC 2.2.2. All executables have
been successfully tested under Linux v0.96c-pl2 . Please read the READMEs
for more infos.

Have fun with it.

--Fabian  (fabi@imp.ch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Subject: Re: ksh for Linux & olwm for X (do they exist?)
Reply-To: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:36:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.020712.16700@athena.mit.edu> klaus%eccx.dnet@esu36.cfsat.honeywell.com (All you touch & all you see is all your life will ever be.) writes:
>I havn't noticed any mention of ksh (korn shell) being available for
>Linux..Is it?  Is the source code available somewhere if not?

  Bash ought to be a superset of ksh--is there something in ksh that's
missing in bash?  Or do you just feel that bash is too bloated?

  Jonathan Lennox
  jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:6645 comp.os.os2.misc:25423
From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Best Video Card ??
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:31:40 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

In article <1992Jul19.172853.26003@highlite.uucp> yarvin@highlite.uucp (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.021536.29502@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>> 
>>I would suggest looking at the clock speeds when looking for a new
>>card for X.  By my calculations, I would need * OVER 100 * to get
>>an acceptable refresh rate at 1176x882 noninterlaced!
>
>Yes... and, no.  I'm running X at 1152x900 with a 65Mhz clock, and have
>no problem with flicker.  The magic?  Dark backgrounds.  If you're not
>silly enough to window in black-text-on-white-screen, your flickering
>worries will be over.
>
>Try green2 on DarkSlateBlue.
>
>c

  Will this still have an effect on your eyes from prolonged use (4+
hour stretches) though even though you do not perceive a problem?  
Most of the good et4000 cards have a high dot clock of 80. Hmm, can 
the S3 (namely, the Diamond Stealth) be programmed to emit a dot clock 
to at least 100Mhz?   This would make 1152x900 adequate (according to 
Satish's xclk program). 

  There is a PD (well, freely available, whatever) S3 project in the works.  
Hopefully, we'll all have a nice Christmas present. ;-)  If the S3 can
drive the better 17" monitors without flicker and without moire' problems
(brought on also by too low a dot clock), then with it's added speed
advantages over the et4000, it will be the ideal card to use for X386.
Also, by the Fall, the price will hopefully drop below $200. 

Steve Hite
shite@sinkhole.unf.edu
From: osmoviit@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Kari Osmoviita)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 110 MHz Tseng 4k card from Tseng Labs
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:10:19 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Somebody asked about faster than 80 MHz 4k card. I just ordered 110 Mhz
version of Tseng Labs supervga card. It can show 1280x1024x16 colors at
60 Hz noninterlaced. For X386 at 1152x900 it could be quite nice with
suitable monitor. I just wonder if Nanao/Eizo F550i (65 kHz line
frequency limit) is good enough.

I have not yet seen the card but the dealer said that it has 110 Mhz
DACs. I do not know if its clock is also that 110 MHz.
From: pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Databases
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:35:32 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne

Has anyone ported a reasonable database to Linux yet?

Thanks in advance.
From: pete@q106fm.UUCP (pete cervasio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: patch for unzip sources on banjo
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 02:40:45 CDT
Organization: WKBQ-FM Engineering Department

vwllibmod@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:

> I've uploaded 'unzipsrc.dff.Z' to /pub/Linux/Incoming on banjo.concert.net.
> 
> The patch is relative to 'unzipsrc.tar.Z' (can also be found in the incoming
> directory on banjo). The patched sources are ready to compiled with GCC 2.2.2
> All executables have been successfully tested under Linux v0.96c-pl2
> 
> What's new?:
>         o Targets 'linux' 'zi_linux' 'ship_linux' added to Makefile
>         o Added a shell-script called 'Make_linux' to build/install 'unzip', 
> 	  'zipinfo', 'ship' and the corresponding man-pages.

Not a flame, just a question.  WHY a patch?  I just snarfed the source
from wupost.wustl.edu and typed the following line to compile Unzip 4.2
with GCC 2.2.2 and 0.96c-pl2:

    CC=gcc; make sysv
    mv unzip /usr/bin

I tried the resulting binary on several files in my /dosc/qmodem/dl
directory without any problems.  I've been using it ever since.  It
really doesn't _need_ a new target.

Like I said, not a flame, just a question.

Pete C.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Pete Cervasio                | pete%q106fm.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu     |
| I fish, therefore I am.      | pete.cervasio@f1.n2250.z1.fidonet.org |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Subject: MicroSoft Bus Mouse v.s. Linux 0.96c(pl2)
Summary: I'm having the darnedest time...
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:17:20 GMT

The saga continues...

Has anyone gotten a MicroSoft Bus Mouse to work with anything under Linux?

Rick Miller            Inet: rick@ee.uwm.edu         Voice: +1 414 221 3403
From: axlas@acad2.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: FIX VT100 char set problems!
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:04:25 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska

In article <1992Jul23.184517.21416@ncsu.edu>, doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House) writes:
> 
> 
> Okay... Here goes another one:
> 
> On occasion, the character set on my console changes to a bunch of
> vertical and horizontal lines.  This is, it seems, a result of issueing
> the incorrect sequence of control characters to the terminal.  How can I
> get it to go back the way it was?  I suppose this is a common problem,
> no?
> 
> Thanks lots!
> 
> 
> -Doogie


Well, as a user of the VAX, the same things happen here, too.  So I dug up
the old RESET.COM file and peeked.

To fix your problem, create /bin/reset with this line:

echo "^O^[)B^[(B^[[0;24r^[[0m^[[2H"

note that control chars are prefixed with '^', i.e. ESC = '^['

then chmod +x /bin/reset, and whenever you get that funky graphics, just

# reset

and all will be happy!

Leif Sawyer
AXLAS@acad2.alaska.edu
From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del in linux, doesn't work.
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:26:16 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder

In article <1992Jul31.010857.9293@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
>
>Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't reboot my system.  It disables the keyboard and
>locks everything up.  I am running 0.96c patch level 2, and have AMI
>BIOS., 386DX-33, Adaptec AHA-1542B,...
>
>Thanks, 
>Scott Mace

This is a known problem with some systems.  Disabling paging, 
kicking it back to real mode, and far jumping to 0xf000:0xffff0 
might work.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: Extended File System
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:09:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.071504.6108@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> of comp.os.linux,
  oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:
> 
> The efs is just the minix file system hacked for larger block numbers
> and larger inode numbers. So speed rateing go
> 
> minxi fs is approx same speed as efs.
> FFS is significantly faster.
> 
> Don't know where HPFS stands.
> 

HPFS is very similar to FFS in concepts, but has been optimized for the
i386 architecture.  As far as I have understood, it is 10-20% faster than
FFS.

I would not mind seeing a Linux driver for HPFS... :-)

	/hpa



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From: as@prg.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Comms sources/binaries @ ftp sites
Date: 22 Jul 92 07:18:25 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

Given that the current pcomm sources / binaries (basically) do not work
would it not be sensible to purge them from the main ftp sites, and
(if possible) replace them with some that do?   At present they're just
a kind of mine waiting to explode in the face of the beginner.

The same applies to xcomm, though to a much lesser extent.   (I'd be
happy to contribute my slightly-tidied version of the xcomm sources).

	Andrew
PS
Can anyone remind me where the sources for rz/sz live?  I found them
once but seem to have purged them from my machine a while back...
        Andrew Stevens                  
      Programmming Research Group       JANET: Andrew.Stevens@uk.ac.oxford.prg
     11 Keble Road, Oxford, England     UUCP:  ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!ox-prg!as
     OX1 3QD   +44 0865 272563
From: rkohlbus@dining.umd.edu (Robert Kohlbus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Installation Help..thanks all!
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:50:13 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Dining Services


	I would just like to thank all the people who send me mail in my 
question about installing Linux.  After much trouble, I found my error,
I have 6mb of memory and Linux doesn't like it.  I went to my other machine,
same kind, except it has 4mb of memory, and Bingo..it worked.
	My next question is why doesn't it like my 6mb?  I have a true blue
IBM 386 machine with OS/2 as my OS, and would like to install Linux as my
other OS on duel boot.  If anyone else has any ideas, please send them my
way.  Thanks.


Robert Kohlbus
University of Maryland
Internet:
    kohlbus@wam.umd.edu
    rkohlbus@dining.umd.edu
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Device names (was Re: ttys2 not responding)
Date: 22 Jul 92 11:02:37 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <1992Jul19.163907.15892@doc.ic.ac.uk> ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis) writes:
>Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
>This is very confusing - drive _letters_ are a DOS anachronism and
>should have no place in Linux.  Drives should be numbered starting at
>0 and partitions should be given letters starting a 'a' so eg....

When Linux first came out, its hard disks were numbered /dev/hd0, /dev/hd1.
We changed somewhere around 0.12 or thereabouts; this was in no way a
feature imported from MS-DOS; moreover I don't think there was ever a
version of MS-DOS which called its hard disks A and B.

Having corrected this historical inaccuracy, I am puzzled about the
origins of the 'should' which you cite.  This question has been discussed
over and over on the Linux standards mailing list.  Those people who
believe Linux must do everything the way BSD does prefer the numbered
drives, but there are important advantages to doing it the other way
round; for example, Linux allows many more partitions on a disk than
BSD does.

A further consideration is this: virtually all Linux systems currently
installed use /dev/hda and /dev/hdb for the drive devices; even SCSI
systems which don't have hardware corresponding to /dev/hda have the
device in the /dev directory.

If you wish to continue this discussion, you might do so on the
list linux-standards@banjo.concert.net; I wouldn't mind arguing
against your view in E-mail either.  But please don't publish
prejudices as absolute truths.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wu@mdd.comm.mot.com (Philip Wu)
Subject: S3 S3 S3 X X X S3 S3 S3
Keywords: hello?
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:15:25 GMT

Just wanted to know how far along the S3 support for X is...

Im behind you guys all the way!

phil
wu@mdd.comm.mot.com
From: walker@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Rick Walker)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:59:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Linux
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux

In comp.os.linux, djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:

> 	Also, I want to clean up the code and Makefile( gee, what a
> 	mess!! Enough #ifdefs to kill a horse! ).  I will make a Linux
> 	makefile and take all the #ifdefs out of the code to make it
> 	`simple'  to debug and maintain. I'll keep the "#ifdef'ed" code around
> 	in case anyone wants to port it to some other platform. 

Once you've hacked it up, you will be off the track for any further
versions or bugfixes.  Sc is well supported by volunteers, and a new
version comes out about once or twice a year.

I would recommend that you keep the #ifdef's and just add a few more for 
linux.  Then send your diffs to Jeff Bahrt who is the maintainer for
the system.  That way your work at fixing bugs, adding features, etc.,
will benefit users of other platforms, and their future work can benefit you.

Sorry that it is such a pain...  I have seen some tools that would evaluate
the #ifdefs, and strip them out reversably for making readable versions of
the code.  Maybe you could get by with something like this.

--
Rick Walker
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bairstow@haydn.psu.edu (Steven Bairstow)
Subject: Re: Logging as root....bad idea?
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 20:38:31 GMT

c3460344@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (C3460344) writes:

> 
> I use Linux on my PC at home.  It is in no way connected to any other 
> machines, and I am the sole user of it.  Is there anything wrong with 
> loggin in as root all the time?  Someone mentioned that it was a bad idea 
> because you can delete/modify ANY file.  Well, what else would someone want 
> but total controll over their system?  I have access to all of my DOS 
> files...what's the big deal?
> 

What I would like is a new version of rm, where are the lastest sources? 
The version that came on the last root disk allows someone in group other 
to erase a file owned by root in group wheel. Even with the file I'm 
trying to erase set to permissions 600, it will ask if you want to overide 
these permissions and then merrily delete it. I have checked and rm is not 
setuid. What is going on here?


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: haldane@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Sykes)
Subject: TCP/IP (current status?)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:33:35 GMT



Hi guys! (OK gals too, but I think 'guys' is gender-wide!!!!)

I have suddenly needed to become aware of the current state of kernel
TCP/IP support under linux.  I've seen the odd mention since dec'91
but nothing lately.  AND...Ican't find out who and where the latest
on this thread of development is.

If you are working on TCP/IP support, (I want to be able to port
ftp etc etc etc) drop me some e-mail.  ka9q is swell, but I'd really
like to be a *complete* part of the internet :-)

Thanks

summary posted as and when!

Laurence Culhane
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tmpcms@eua.ericsson.se (Carl-Michael Skoog)
Subject: Re: Shoelace-Problems
Keywords: Shoelace
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:06:46 GMT

wgutz@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Utz) writes:

>Hi there!

>I installed Linux0.96 for the first time about two weeks ago on my 386.
>After some days I installed it for the second time (on the same machine,
>reinstalled it because I wanted to change some partitionsa on my harddisk).
>Everything with the installation worked exactly as the first time, but shoe-
>lace doesn't work anymore: After displaying the boot-menu and me typing
>the number of the partition to be booted nothing happens(in other words 
>the machine hangs). I tried to reinstall shoelace again and again but with
>no change in result. Has anyone any idea what might be the problem?

>Thanks in advance!

>Wolfgang 


Probably you haven't installed shoelace in your boot partition block.
In other words do 'laceup /dev/hd{wherever your Linux partition is}'.
Read the documentation properly (INCLUDING the warnings)!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mike@torisc04.isc.toronto.ibm.com
Subject: ATI X386
Summary: I missed the post
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:22:48 GMT
Organization: IBM CANADA LTD. RS/6000 Customer Support Centre

Somebody already posted where I could get the driver for ATI Wonder XL.
I think it was a beta copy that someone was developing.  Could that
kind individual please send me a copy of the server for ATI Wonder XL??

Email to : mccarthy@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca with reply.  

Thanks all you linuxers out there.

---

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: juh@qt.IPA.FhG.de (Juergen Henke)
Subject: Re: Xphoon.  Again.
Organization: Fraunhofer Inst. f. Manufact. Engineering a. Automation,
	Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:05:28 GMT


Had no problems with xphoon. Just ifndef out the offending ioctl :-).
Works fine (right at the moment !).

Juergen

P.S.: Not to say that's a patch... :-)


*** xphoon.c-orig       Thu Jul 23 23:54:31 1992
--- xphoon.c    Mon Jul 13 19:09:39 1992
***************
*** 199,204 ****
--- 199,205 ----
            }
        else
            {
+ #ifndef linux
            if ( ioctl( tty, TIOCNOTTY, 0 ) < 0 )
                {
                (void) fprintf( stderr, "%s: ", argv0 );
***************
*** 205,210 ****
--- 206,212 ----
                perror( "TIOCNOTTY ioctl" );
                exit( 1 );
                }
+ #endif
            (void) close( tty );
            }
        }
--
_________________________________________________________________________
Juergen Henke, e-mail juh@IPA.FhG.de, PSI-mail PSI%4505016002::JUH_IPA
Fraunhofer-Institut f. Produktionstechnik u. Automatisierung
Nobelstrasse 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 80
(ATK-mail and MIME-mail welcome)
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: getty/login problems
Date: 27 Jul 92 05:46:48 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <2802@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page) writes:
>When you try and log in via one of the serial ports ttys1 or ttys2, you get
>the login prompt but as soon as you type a character it does not display but
>just respawns the login promts again. Local consoles log in fine.

This behaviour might possibly occur if you have an /etc/nologin file, or
if the serial ports are not in /etc/securetty.

>One thing I noticed is the /dev/ttys1 &2 files keep changing their group back
>to system though I set them to other.

Several programs change the group and owner of devices, login among them.

Hope this helps.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bjl@loki.pttrnl.nl (Ben Lippolt)
Subject: Performance of Linux on 486/33 compared to SparcStation-2
Reply-To: B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl
Organization: PTT Research
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:00:44 GMT

Hi,

I just installed TeX on my Linux system (a 486/33 ISA, 8 Mb, 200 Mb IDE)
and just wanted to see what the speed of it was compared to TeX on my
SparcStation-2 (at work of course :-) ).  So I did a very simple test
(and probably not very scientific). I took a document (29 pages) and TeX-ed
it 10 times. The results were:

SS-2	1:57 min
486/33	1:12 min

These are response times. Both machines were doing nothing else (the
SS-2 is on an network, but the network and the server had very little
load at the time (11:00 pm)). 

I know you can't draw any conclusions from this, but I'm impressed anyway.


Ben Lippolt.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux