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On Jan 31, 1:14=A0pm, Per Sandberg <per.sandb...@bredband.net> wrote:
> Talk about getting nostalgic.
>
> The old R1000:s I think they where the best development tool ever
> produced but there was some serous drawbacks:
> * Price
> * Performance
> * Only one language
> They were awfully slow I recall some system builds that required serious
> planing, 1 week setup 4 weeks to compile and 1 week cleanup.

A colleague once called me over and said, "If I do <this> it seems to
lock up the system" .. and it took the R1000 45 minutes to reboot.
Apparently it was the third time .. almost got his account withdrawn.