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Alpha
Due to the power failure, there was the loss of several hours of work.
Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on an old DEC AlphaStation
200 I have. I had started building a new, smaller kernel for it around
23:30 last night. It had not completed by the time of the power outage.
I have restarted that build.
Any one reading this would reasonably ask, "Why are you not as
confused/angry/annoyed with a compile that was not finished in 7 hours
as you were about one that took 3 hours?"
The answer is simple. This AlphaStation is powered by a 100MHz DEC Alpha
EV4 CPU and has 64MB of RAM. To the best of my knowledge, DEC made this
machine around 1994 or 1995. I expected the build to take a long time;
the machine is around a dozen years old.
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