| From: | Daedalus |
| Date: | 26 Mar 2001 at 13:45:59 |
| Subject: | Re: slow |
Hi All,
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:31:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > True, but if my gameboy took 3 minutes to start up, I just wouldn't
> > bother... Besides, if it did, it'd probably be running Windows anyway, and
> > all the hard disk thrashing would kill off the batteries ;)
>
> what machine have you got that takes 3 minutes to powerup? I only know of
> three that take that long - and they are all high-spec servers doing a lot
> of work.
Ballpark figure, but my P166 running Win98 takes about 2:20 to boot. I'm
talking about until everything stops thrashing and its fully responsive. I
suppose i could optimise it, but I use it sod all anyway...
Rob
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