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| From | D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> |
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| Subject | Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? |
| Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2018 20:22:50 -0000 (UTC) |
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thomas.harte wrote: > i.e. from placing the disk in the drive and switching on a II+, roughly > how > long should it be until Integer BASIC is loaded and I'm back at the BASIC > prompt? > > > But I thought I'd double check first: how long should the boot actually > take? > Several seconds. First the drive head is forced back to track 0, making the clack-clack-clack. Then DOS is loaded from the first couple tracks. Then the INTBASIC file is loaded, and that's about 42 sectors. I'm going to guess it's in the neighborhood of 5 to 6 seconds.... Let's time it and find out for sure. :-) -- ]DF$ The New Apple II User's Guide: https://macgui.com/newa2guide/
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How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? thomas.harte@gmail.com - 2018-08-02 10:51 -0700
Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2018-08-02 20:22 +0000
Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? qkumba <peter.ferrie@gmail.com> - 2018-08-02 14:33 -0700
Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? thomas.harte@gmail.com - 2018-08-02 18:25 -0700
Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2018-08-03 00:55 -0500
Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? thomas.harte@gmail.com - 2018-08-03 07:30 -0700
Re: How long should DOS 3.3 take to load? David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2018-08-03 07:56 -0700
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