| From: | Bill Eaves |
| Date: | 22 Mar 2001 at 14:23:50 |
| Subject: | Re: slow |
Hello Alan
On 22-Mar-01, Alan Buxey wrote:
> hi,
>> My question is: does the below justify the extra boot time caused by the
>> reset ? Do I /need/ updated console.device, ram handler etc. the older
>> ones seem to still work perfectly.
> 1) whats an extra 1 second of boot-time comapared to things being fixed?
If it were only a second. It takes *far* longer than that. Each reset scans
the IDE and/or SCSI bus and all this takes quite a long time, long enough
not to want it more than on the original switch on.
> 2) they wouldnt have been worked on by H&P and updated if they werent
> needed :-|
Apart from accessing larger HDs (which I don't have) what advantage *is*
there for the resets ?
>
>> Is it not a backwards step, I remember the days when you switched on a
>> computer and could use it almost immediately without all this rigmorole.
> ...well, that discounts ANY Amiga ever produced. are you talking about a
> Spectrum with its built in Basic ROM?
True I did find the Amiga slow when I first got it, adding a hard drive
helped though. Previously I had a home built comoputer (Powertran Cortex)
and all my commonly used software was on a home made Eprom board. Much
faster :o)
Isn't one of the Amiga's strong points supposed to be its quick boot time.
It isn't any more it's getting as bad as any PC.
Regards,
Bill.
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