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I've successfully built LOS from source!
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: sigma7 on August 13, 2025, 05:53:58 pm ---A 'real' drop-in solution would be a new accelerator design that incorporates a fast version of the MMU. Although that's been suggested, Alex hasn't finished it yet. :)
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And given that I'm about to start grad school, it may be quite a while (if ever) before I get around to starting on something like that!
--- Quote from: sigma7 on August 13, 2025, 05:53:58 pm ---Perhaps LisaEm is ultimately the best solution?
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LisaEm works pretty darn well and can build everything in about 10 minutes when clocked at 512MHz. The only issue is that it crashes a lot, which can be pretty infuriating and will often corrupt your disk image.
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on August 13, 2025, 05:31:46 pm ---The thought of leaving my Lisa on for hours on end compiling code at 5MHz gives me a bit of a shiver.
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Sure, it's about 9 hours the first time around, but just remember that you'll really only need to do that once. After that, you'll just be rebuilding whichever components you're making changes to, which will be significantly quicker. For instance, the OS itself only takes 45 minutes, and each of the applications is 45 minutes or less. Many of the libraries are quicker than that, at about 10-15 minutes each.
And for what it's worth, I've left my Lisa on for at least 1000 hours throughout this project, and it's handled everything flawlessly! Not to say that your experience will be the same, but I've been impressed by the reliability of everything.
compu_85:
Wow amazing work Alex!!!
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