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Not a C64 user, but I did use Apples, Ataris, and IBMs. Booting to BASIC or a cartridge was fast. Booting to a floppy not as much. Reading a tape? That took se
by anikom15 4y ago
Not a C64 user, but I did use Apples, Ataris, and IBMs. Booting to BASIC or a cartridge was fast. Booting to a floppy not as much.
Reading a tape? That took several minutes.
- dijit 4y agoThe boot was fast on the c64. Essentially instant. It just dumped you into a prompt though, and loading any program was really quite painfully slow.
- jacquesm 4y agoIt could be just as fast if the bios on a PC did absolutely nothing other than initialize the motherboard and a small basic interpreter. A modern bios goes through more cycles during the boot phase of a typical machine than a C64 would see in its entire lifetime.
- anikom15 4y agoIt will be faster actually.
- NikkiA 4y agoOn early IBM PCs (up until around the introduction of the PS/2 anyway) there was a key sequence to boot direct to BASICA, and it was always about as fast as the 8bits were - except that most of the 8bits didn't have the slow memory check that IBM insisted on.