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Re: Oh for the days of fast boot

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Rod Pemberton 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. :-)

:) We better start counting from power switch activated. 
 
> 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.

Here is what I measure on my machines (in seconds):

BIOS      8..12 vary with version (with quick memory test)
DOS 6.00      8 +1   per HD [120K](w/o EMM,XMS,CD,mouse)
KESYS004      4 +0.5 per HD [512K](with XMM,CD,mouse,etc..)
KESYS015      2 +0.3 per HD (as above and more)   

XPpro      ~200 and several minutes for everything working
win7       ~500 ditto

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wolfgang 

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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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