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Re: Oh for the days of fast boot

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On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:36:30 +0000
James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:

> OS booting these days can be very slow. By contrast
> here is a reminder of how quickly computers used to boot:
> 
>  [link]
> 
> As you can see, finding the switch is the bit that
> took most time. :-)

DOS still boots quickly.  This machine takes 23 seconds
to cold boot DOS, i.e., BIOS + DOS, from a SATA hard disk,
with a bunch of drivers and some file deletions, etc.
I'm sure that would be much, much slower on an IBM AT.

64-bit Linux plus machine start up here takes 42 seconds
on this machine which has parts from 2009 and boots Linux
from an SSD.  It has to be much faster than that today,
given six years and the new faster SATA protocols and SSDs.

Windows 10 is fairly quick on a different machine (2010)
with a hard disk.  It usually takes under a minute to
display the desktop which is roughly the same as my Linux
machine, except that Windows 10 also continues to load
drivers for a while after the desktop is displayed.  This
may be due to the hard disk instead of SSD.  But, it's only
that quick if you don't have "fast boot" deactivated, and
you don't have non-MS anti-virus software installed.  The
non-MS anti-virus software seems to be the largest cause
of boot up slowdown for Windows 10, e.g., taking the time
to boot to three to five minutes.


Rod Pemberton

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Oh for the days of fast boot James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 14:36 +0000
  Re: Oh for the days of fast boot JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-01-29 06:45 +0700
  Re: Oh for the days of fast boot Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-28 19:31 -0500
    Re: Oh for the days of fast boot "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-01-29 11:06 +0100
      Re: Oh for the days of fast boot James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 15:47 +0000
        Re: Oh for the days of fast boot "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-01-29 20:53 +0100
          Re: Oh for the days of fast boot James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 10:57 +0000
            Re: Oh for the days of fast boot "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-01-30 21:49 +0100
              Re: Oh for the days of fast boot James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 23:46 +0000
                Re: Oh for the days of fast boot "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-01-31 10:48 +0100

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