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Atari ST also booted from ROM. But it also expected a floppy disk to be in the drive, to check for auto boot programs, etc. So that slowed the boot. If there wa
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Atari ST also booted from ROM. But it also expected a floppy disk to be in the drive, to check for auto boot programs, etc. So that slowed the boot. If there was no floppy, it would hang for a while waiting for one, even. Poor choice.
- Symbiote 3y agoIn RISC OS that was optional. There was a setting[1] in NVRAM which set whether or not to look for a boot device, and what that boot device was (floppy disc, hard disc, network). I don't remember what happened if you configured it to look for extra boot files on a floppy disc, but the drive was empty. I think it would give up very quickly (1-2 seconds), as it was a normal way to load a program on the earlier BBC computers — insert the program disc, which would be bootable, and press the key combination (Shift+Break) to reset. "Podules" (expansion cards) could also map extra modules into the OS from their own ROM, usually the required device drivers for the card. [1] https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/*Configure%20Boot https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/*Configur...
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoOn the ST you could hit ESC to make it skip the floppy check, I believe.