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 Message 9645 
 Ward Dossche to Mark Da Silva 
 Re: DB Binkd 
 08 Aug 21 14:19:53 
 
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MD>WD> It was a beautiful machine ... affordable, with a 20MB hardcard.
MD>WD> Compiling the nodelist took like 40 minutes.
 
MD> 40 Minutes! Imagine if you had more then one network, Were they user
MD> ugradable at all?
 
The problem was the HD capacity, and its speed.
 
The nodelist then was 7MB, when you apply the nodiff then the outcome is also
7MB. Meaning you already needed 14MB just for nodelist processing ... of a
20MB disc ... doesn't give you much leeway with othwer stuff you're doing.
 
 \%/@rd 

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