[mdlug] Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Dan Pritts]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:54:23PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Perhaps the early 68000 systems were slow -- I don't know 'cause I
> never used a NeXT 68000 pizza box.  I spent 3 yrs as a developer using
> NeXTSTEP on Intel hardware and it was decently fast.  Of course that
> was about 10 yrs ago and hardware was slower then now.

I used an original 68030 next cube with 8M RAM, let me tell you that was
slow slow slow.  

The 68040 2nd generation cubes and slabs were much better.  The 040 was
a faster chip, but just as importantly the newer hardware shipped with
16M ram.

danno
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