The boot time bottleneck (if it can be called that) on my old ABC80 was waiting for the CRT to warm up. The prompt was already there and fading into view a coup

The boot time bottleneck (if it can be called that) on my old ABC80 was waiting for the CRT to warm up. The prompt was already there and fading into view a couple of seconds after power-up. Booting from ROM is one thing. Loading something from tape, that's another story.