Subj : Re: New Pico2
To   : All
From : john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech
Date : Wed Aug 14 2024 12:07:19

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:40:25 +0100, Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
wrote:

>On 14/08/2024 17:55, john larkin wrote:
><snip>
>>
>> Computers used to boot a lot faster in those days. And had less bugs.
>>
>
>Not sure about that - in the late 80's our Vax8530 took about 30 mins
>for a reboot.
>
>My X86 VMS instance in a VM on modest hardware, takes less than a minute
>to reboot

MS-DOS was a lot faster, on a 2 MHz 8088.

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