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I think you might have rose tinted glasses. I threw a solid state drive in my turbo XT and load times even for MS-DOS 3 aren’t good. Loading up Windows 3 is te
by BirAdam 4y ago
I think you might have rose tinted glasses.
I threw a solid state drive in my turbo XT and load times even for MS-DOS 3 aren’t good. Loading up Windows 3 is terrible. WordStar can boot okay if you’re not using any TSRs to enhance functionality. You want to load Civilization? There’s a wait.
If we move on to Win98 or 2K on say a Pentium3, with a solid state disk everything becomes somewhat snappy. The SSD is the main gain. Take it away and everything is abysmal.
I love ancient hardware, but if you go back to relive using those machines… it just ain’t what we remember. Our expectations have changed.
- MobiusHorizons 4y agoThe 8bit cartridge based computers really are instant on. I think that may be what the op is referring to. I don’t think any system with a hard drive or sdram can even get to a boot loader in the same amount of time regardless of the latency of the boot medium. It really was a different era.
- BirAdam 4y agoThey also only loaded BASIC instantly. Want to load from tape or floppy and you’re back to waiting. Same thing if you run your BASIC program. Instant on in that case was restricted to the ROM BASIC and cartridges.