Subj : Re: New Pico2
To   : john larkin
From : druck
Date : Wed Aug 14 2024 21:06:02

On 14/08/2024 20:07, john larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:40:25 +0100, Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
>> 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.

---druck

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