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That wouldn't be on account of the tubes; tube filaments do not take minutes to heat up the cathodes. Warm boots can save time by not repeating all the boostra
by kazinator 2y ago
That wouldn't be on account of the tubes; tube filaments do not take minutes to heat up the cathodes.
Warm boots can save time by not repeating all the boostrapping steps. In a warm boot, you typically don't execute any power-on self-checks, for starters.
- 082349872349872 2y agoMaybe I'm misremembering (I was very young) or maybe I was with people who were too superstitious, but these tubes themselves were actually from the 1950s, and they did indeed take a significant amount of time before they decided the hardware was "warm enough" that one could let the software start doing its thing.