> Well if you're going to browse FTP for it, try > > ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org > > There is a large list on their site, but that would be "our" mirror in > this country :)
Mail archived to save address... I'm in the US, but late at night I seem to have a better time with UK servers anyway. That, and I'm stuck on dial up for a few more months while the phone company lays cables :-/ g. > > > > Unfortunate fact of life, things break. Real life is always > > interrupting stuff. As do, video games, books, movies, and the > > opposite sex ;-) > > Ah, Mario Sunshine does get addictive at times. Mario!! I'm currently engrossed with "Robotech: Battlecry." Hours fly by like minutes! > > housing too. I'll not pester you about V for another month or two, > > promise :-) > > :) > > As soon as I can I'll try and build something or get someone to build > something. Awesome :) > > addressed on the Amiga, and that is all there is to it. Whether it's > > OS4 or MorphOS, the disk access system has to be evaluated and fixed. > > You can't improve onboard IDE, at all. It's PIO0 which is the best > equivalent > of 1MB/s at the best of times - but you'd be lucky to get around the huge > CPU time issues to get more than 600k/s on a good day. Gack!! The IDE disk access from Amithlon isn't terribly bad. The Bhudda card seemed to improve things on the amiga (hey something else for ebay!), but not like what is on the amithlon. So, there is a relevence to cpu speed and disk access, even with DMA? > The SCSI implementations on an Amiga A1200 would max out at 20MB/s if they > hit their theoretical limit, my 4GB IBM is specced at 12MB/s burst and 9MB/s > sustained but only managed 4-5MB/s because of the slow 060 CPU (even DMA > SCSI has to wait for it's buffers to be checked..) This makes a *LOT* of Well, I guess that answers the question :) You should see my old A3000, it's the definition of a beast. My father-in-law and I took an old server-tower case; then, we did the cut and weld thing. It was a lot of fun on a computer neither of us intended to ever use... Dunno why that came up... I guess I just got thinking about the older systems I have around here. It's amazing the number of parts, part-systems, and general junk that can collect up over the years. > difference to GCC anyway. But the real thing is that disk access is slow and > ixemul makes it worse. If you could compile all inside the RAM disk then > you'd probably have no speed troubles at all besides filesystem overhead > (that said, the Ram Disk OFS isn't the fastest..) I could pull that off on the 'thlon, but my real Amiga only has 32M. My amithlon system has about 640M ram. Doesn't matter unless I want to start building stuff. I have Storm4 on 'thlon as well. Anyway, I need to set up all the GCC stuff on both my miggy and on linux. Need the experience on both machines. Besides, it would be interesting to see gcc compile times on 'thlon. > I never got a chance to put my disk through it's paces on MorphOS because > it never ran ever again after I restructured my system. The IDE seems to > have stopped working. It' not a happy machine :P [plays "taps"] I know the feeling, it should share a bottle of rum with my 4000... > > > Nonetheless, it took 12 minutes on my FreeBSD box. Who cares > > > about compilers on Amigas? :) > > > > I'de like to set up something like that on my Linux install, but I'm > > still rather clumsy with linux still. > > Well Blom's stuff works fine if you can unpack it. Blom? I want to try all of this stuff, but the only compilers I've ever gotten to work correctly is Storm and Borland's C compiler. Wait... There was one on the aminet from years ago... NorthC! That was it, NorthC. I've got the Mandrake unpacker. I must say while Mandrake installs clean and is relatively easy to use--they (mandrake) beg for money more than any other computer company I've ever seen. -- -- Regards, Dave 'Targhan' Crawford
