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   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. :)   
      
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