From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 09:23:39 +0100   
   James Harris  wrote:   
      
   > On 23/10/2021 07:35, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   > > On 21/10/2021 22:02, James Harris wrote:   
   > >> You guys might be interested in this. The guy claims it as the   
   > >> world's fastest-booting PC. That may be something of an overclaim   
   > >> but this is the fastest I've ever seen a PC boot - about 2.5   
   > >> seconds to MS-DOS 3.3. And that's on an 8086!   
   > >>   
   > >>    https://youtu.be/DaSkda4XW3k   
   > >    
   > > remember my KESYS booted 512K and deployed itself to 4MB within 1.9    
   > > seconds.   
   >    
   > Yes, I remembered that your OS very impressively booted in about 2    
   > seconds. AISI there are two parts to startup:   
   >    
   > 1. Firmware boot time   
   > 2. OS boot time   
   >    
   > As the video shows, both of those were negligible on that old 8086.   
   > (And it looked as though config.sys and autoexec.bat were empty so   
   > there was nothing for the OS to do on startup.)   
   >    
   > Today most PCs take some time in the firmware before an OS gets to   
   > start.   
   >    
   > But typically the biggest drag on startup time is the OS. The most    
   > common OS, Windows, can take many minutes while Windows gets its act    
   > together. And the story doesn't end there. Even after my Windows PC   
   > has presented a GUI it will be virtually unusable for some further   
   > period of time because it is still hammering the disk.   
   >    
   > Maybe the old days had some good after all. :-)   
   >    
      
   Xpud on a(n?) eeePC was 10s!   
      
   https://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-04/wranglin-fastest-boot-west/   
      
   (but FF 2.5 won't get a lot of the internet these days)   
      
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