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Fastest "reasonably complete" boot I've ever seen was on a BeOS setup I had on a 600 MHz laptop (~2000?). ~4 seconds to the login prompt, and another 1-2 second
by ohazi 13y ago
Fastest "reasonably complete" boot I've ever seen was on a BeOS setup I had on a 600 MHz laptop (~2000?). ~4 seconds to the login prompt, and another 1-2 seconds to finish "thinking" after login.
Man, that thing was fast.
- agumonkey 13y agoI didn't know about BeOS booting process, but I stumbled upon good old demos[1] recently, I remember how I was amazed back in the days. I'm still amazed, more than before. Sad. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ
- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoBeOS was super responsive. I had the opportunity to test the last release on some early MMX I had and was blown away by how responsive it was compared to Windows, or even to my Slackware installation.
- e12e 13y agoI also seem to recall that the somewhat legendary QNX demo floppy (a 1.44 floppy image that booted to a full graphical desktop) was also pretty fast to come up. I can't recall exactly how fast though. On a side note I somewhat recently booted up our old Amiga 2000, running an upgraded cpu (68020 I think, maybe 10 Mhz) -- booting off its ancient 40 MB scsi hd -- and I was surprised how slow bootup was. Can't remember that I gave bootup time much thought when the thing was new (then again, most reboots were done to boot into a game off of floppies...).
- dchichkov 13y ago:)
- vacri 13y agoIn contrast, my win98SE desktop took 4'30" to boot back in the day. I know this because I decided to time it after yet-another-BSOD-while-gaming...