Subj : Re: New Pico2 To : Scott Alfter From : Kerr-Mudd, John Date : Thu Aug 15 2024 16:36:50 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. -- Bah, and indeed Humbug. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .