I used to work on an 8086 networked computer with multitasking. It booted in 12 seconds, to the shell. But it took an hour to compile 9MB of source code (our o

I used to work on an 8086 networked computer with multitasking. It booted in 12 seconds, to the shell. But it took an hour to compile 9MB of source code (our operating system). So it's all relative to the task.