| From: | Mike O'Hara |
| Date: | 22 Mar 2001 at 16:43:53 |
| Subject: | Re: slow |
Hi Bill, on 22-Mar-01 14:36:45 you wrote:
>Hello Alan
>> new ROMS (plus the incurred cost) would have indeed been the ideal
>> solution. I wonder how much this was not thought about :-|
>Probably not enough :(
>I think the cost of a ROM or y EPROMs would not be too much. It would be
>worth it as far as I am concerned.
>> anyway, I still recall having to boot workbench 1.3 et al from floppy
>> disks..... over a minute for the A500 to boot up.
>That's why the floppy as a boot medium died a long time ago.
>> complain about my A1200 boot time which is still a factor of 3 faster than
>> my gf's WinME box (whoah, they more than halved boottime, still slow!)
>It just shows how bad PCs are then and how people have become accustomed to
>lengthy boot times. You would not accept the same for any other electrical
>appliance - and that includes those that do run software.
>>> It seems computing just gets slower every year :-(
>>> I suppose that's 'progress' for you ;)
>> ummm...people expect MORE from their machines each year, but expect the
>> setup time to be same of faster? get real, you've got to live with one
>> side of the coin, or the other
>No, I think people have just become too accepting of slow boot ups. The
>software that is needed to run the system should be available very quickly.
>Applications can be loaded as and when you need tham but the software
>laoded at startup should be on ROM, Eprom, FlashROM or some similar device.
>> incidentally, have you ever tried cutting/improving your boot time?
>> a HUGE amount of time is spent copying large envarc:'s to env:
>> if you install "happyenv" it slices boottime down by several seconds
>I have used HappyEnv for years and it is very good for shortenning the boot
>time. I also tend not to have too much in my WBStartup drawer too -
>currently only 4 tools.
>Removing DOpus would help a lot but then I need the functionality. If only
>H&P had put the OS and the bulk of Magellan on ROM I'd be very happy.
>> I reduced my WBStartup from 23 tools
>> to just 5. my system is just as productive (oh, and 5x more stable! 8-) )
>I'll agree with that, I only have 4 :o)
>And the same about the S-S too.
>Its the time taken before this stuff even starts that gets me. Resets seem
>to add about 20 seconds or so before anything even starts, so I avoid them
>if at all possible.
>Regards,
>Bill.
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Carpe Diem,
Mike 'Navvie' O'Hara
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