Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: druck Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: New Pico2 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:06:02 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <9778be7486d0f9b79e5110596f0b66631ae0ff09.camel@munted.eu> <9s0nbjt4ggkd85446flpjlj2f0ischvop3@4ax.com> <639240d2ce63decf4d5488d929b3213e9f385c50.camel@munted.eu> <7g4pbjp11mdqqdb21don5p5gj484opaul3@4ax.com> <3rnpbjlhak0bo2lnjoptsa1l8krhh1qcqh@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:06:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4399a85e1a909f53514b62d4691bd451"; logging-data="627567"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/eZErzRqJqDyGQqk4jCb8Q" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:wWXt8/RHegcgkEIOrfYIGe9VSM0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1847 On 14/08/2024 20:07, john larkin wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:40:25 +0100, Chris Townley >> Not sure about that - in the late 80's our Vax8530 took about 30 mins >> for a reboot. >> >> My X86 VMS instance in a VM on modest hardware, takes less than a minute >> to reboot > > MS-DOS was a lot faster, on a 2 MHz 8088. >The BBC Micro (2MHz 6502) was even faster booting from it's OS ROM. The longest part was doing the startup beep. ---druck