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   On 14/08/2024 20:07, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:40:25 +0100, Chris Townley    
   >> Not sure about that - in the late 80's our Vax8530 took about 30 mins   
   >> for a reboot.   
   >>   
   >> My X86 VMS instance in a VM on modest hardware, takes less than a minute   
   >> to reboot   
   >   
   > MS-DOS was a lot faster, on a 2 MHz 8088.   
   >The BBC Micro (2MHz 6502) was even faster booting from it's OS ROM.   
   The longest part was doing the startup beep.   
      
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