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What happens during startup?
- satisfice 1y agoI want more stuff like this.
- op00to 1y agoI used to use “describe the Linux boot process” as an interview question. It was really fun to see what different people saw was important to mention, and a great way to judge people’s depth.
- reader9274 1y agoCheck out linux-insides: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/ https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/
- bzmrgonz 1y agoTLDR; how can we load nixOS or netbsd on it????
- curtisszmania 1y ago[dead]
- socalgal2 1y ago> What happens during startup? Too gawd damn much! Go back to an Apple II, An Atari 800, A Sinclare ZX80, You turn them on. They execute a few instructions and then are ready to use. Contrast to my linux boxes that are a million times faster but takes ~2 minutes until I can use them. Yea, I know, things have changed for reasons Still... It's sad to me how long things take to get started and all of those 100s and 1000s of layer are each full of vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered.
- skeezyboy 1y agowhen i look back at those machines im surprised people were willing to learn to use them.
- bzzzt 1y agoThere was nothing better available at that time and there was a lot less to learn. The entire BIOS and BASIC interpreter of the ZX80 fitted in 4Kb...
- skeezyboy 1y agohow much would another stick of ram have been? or at least an onboard gpu
- bzzzt 1y agoThere were no sticks then, just RAM chips on the mainboard or on an expansion card fitted in the back of the computer. ZX80 was built to cost 100GBP, a big chunk of that was the memory since it used expensive SRAM chips.
- butlike 1y agoThe hackers keep it all honest. The technology should progress at a decent rate.