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   REPLYADDR john larkin  3a181dfb   
   REPLY:  7d3ea274   
   PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
   On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:40:25 +0100, Chris Townley    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 14/08/2024 17:55, john larkin wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Computers used to boot a lot faster in those days. And had less bugs.   
   >>   
   >   
   >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.   
      
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