XPost: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, alt.os.linux   
   From: bbolsoy@norway.nospam   
      
   Hawk  wrote in   
   news:10ol2klbbn6s2e5@corp.supernews.com:   
   > Bjørnar Bolsøy wrote:   
      
   >>>Posing the argument that all computers should be able to start   
   >>>instantly because a C-64 could do it 20 years ago is just plain   
   >>>silly.  Good luck squeezing all of the functionality you are   
   >>>used to with a modern PC into 20kb of ROM.  Your average   
   >>>windows icon would have trouble fitting into that...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>  All in all what most people do with technology are simple   
   >>  things, and the average PC is a substantial overkill for the   
   >>  practical utility it represents. Technically there are few   
   >>  obsticles for an instant-on philosohy on computers, even MS   
   >>  manages to have XP come to live, with apps, after a few   
   >>  seconds of hibernation.   
   >>   
   >>  My XP setup boots in about 12 seconds, sans BIOS post, on   
   >>  a mediocre 80GB IDE disk. Typical app takes than 2-3 seconds   
   >>  to launch uncached. That's on a 800Mhz P3 and fairly outdated   
   >>  BX motherboard. Well the chipset dates back to '97 anyway.   
   >>   
   >>  Needless to say I've tweaked for all it's worth to the   
   >>  effect that I at one point had it running in 6.24 seconds,   
   >>  I think, with basic services.   
   >>   
   >>  It's not hard to imagine a slimmer, more I/O optimized and   
   >>  special purpose OS on a faster storage medium come to live   
   >>  in a couple of short seconds, especially on something like CF.   
   >>  I mean if a PocketPC can why shouldn't a desktop.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>  Regards...   
   >>   
   >   
   > Soooo...lemme get this straight.  Booting in 6.24 seconds is a   
   > problem for you?   
      
    That doesn't give me a working setup, until it loads a few   
    services, devices and stuff.   
      
   > In my book that would be close enough to   
   > instantaneous to call it good.   
      
    2-3 seconds is good enough for me.   
      
   > Are you rebooting so often that all of those 6 second   
   > improvements in boot time would give you a substantial increase   
   > in time that could be used in other endeavors?  ;)   
      
    Neither would 6 seconds starting up my car engine   
    not bother me. :)   
      
      
    Regards...   
      
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