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I miss the cold boot time of RISC OS on Archimedes hardware: https://youtu.be/oKrEH8U-xOI https://youtu.be/oKrEH8U-xOI

• Narishma 6y ago
  Isn't that because the OS is in ROM?
  • pmyteh 6y ago
    For the early versions on Archimedes hardware, yes. Later versions had increasing amounts on disk, which increased the boot time from 'nearly instant' to merely 'fairly quick'. Although recent versions of RISC OS are now entirely softloaded, the increased speed of the Raspberry Pi and other modern hardware platforms has cheerfully reduced boot time again: by modern standards RISC OS is tiny!
  • tokamak-teapot 6y ago
    It helped at the time, certainly. An SSD in a modern computer is much faster than ROM from back then, though, and instead of an 8Mhz CPU we have 2000+ MHz CPUs.