From: admin@127.0.0.1
On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:42:29 GMT
scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) wrote:
> In article ,
> Gordon Henderson wrote:
> >In article , druck wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >Boot times are always a somewhat interesting subjest - Yes, the Beeb
> >and Apple II spend more time doing the Beep at startup than anything
> >else. the Beeb had an advantage over the Apple II in that the filing
> >system was in ROM where on the Apple II it had to boot from a small PROM
> >on the disk controller card then load up DOS which took extra seconds...
>
> If you didn't care about not being in DOS, you could switch it on, hit
> Ctrl-Reset, and get dropped into a BASIC prompt right away. If a disk
> controller wasn't installed at all (it was about a year from the
> introduction of the Apple II to the introduction of the Disk II floppy
> drive), it'd boot straight to BASIC.
>
> After I added a hard drive to my IIe, the longest delay in starting the
> computer was waiting for the drive to spin up. :)
>
I have/had a EEEpc that'd boot to a cutdown linux & open a browser
(FF2.0) in about 10s from pressing "on" button. Of course very little on
the internets these days will work with a basic html browser; loads of
webshites seem to have to download a heap of javascript and large
pictures before toggling to telling you your browser is no longer
supported.
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Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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