Re: RAM and install time: SE/30

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:55:24AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:37 +0100, Joe wrote:
> > A few weeks back I installed woody on an SE/30 with 8MB RAM and it
> > took 8 days.
> >  
> > Now upgraded to 68mb RAM so I thought I'd see what difference it made.
> > Installation time was something under 5 hours (I went off so missed
> > the exact time).
> 
> Only 187 hours faster? :(  I thought more RAM would speed it up
> more than that.  Oh well...

I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic. Note that the difference is one
of more than 97%...

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