Subj : Re: New Pico2 To : gordon+usenet@drogon.net From : Scott Alfter Date : Thu Aug 15 2024 14:42:29 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. :) -- _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( https://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .