Re: New Pico2

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:42:29 GMT
scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) wrote:

In article <v9l0l4$vl0t$1@dont-email.me>,
Gordon Henderson  <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> wrote:

In article <v9j2na$j4rf$1@dont-email.me>, druck  <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

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.

>
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.