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Also, the progress bar that they used to have for starting up OSX (removed in Leopard I think?) had no actual relation to anything the machine was doing, it was
by pak 16y ago
Also, the progress bar that they used to have for starting up OSX (removed in Leopard I think?) had no actual relation to anything the machine was doing, it was just timed to move across at a particular rate based on the average startup speed of your computer.
http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details#waitingforloginwindow http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details#waiting...
A completely fake progress bar--it was just something for you to look at.
- comex 16y agoThat progress bar may not be tied to actual events, but it does give you a reasonably accurate view of the time remaining until the login window will appear-- probably more accurate than if the programmer guesses how much each startup phase is worth and the bar ends up moving erratically.
- pak 16y agoEhm, I beg to differ. Booting off a regular drive (non-SSD) can produce pretty variable times, depending on if you just installed something, fragmented the drive with some large files, etc. I remember many startups on my old PowerBook G4 running Tiger where the bar would reach the end and keep pulsing for another twenty seconds, much to my confusion/amusement.