PC still playing Amiga catchup

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What is a BIP?

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So, it's really a GIP...

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The presence of GFLOP/s argues that BIP should be GIP (for consistency).

Is this one of your own coding projects?

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Cool.

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Application (game) launch times generally weren't very good on the ZX series though... (cassette tapes).

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Heres another example: I'm on a c2d 2.4 ghz with 4 gig ram 512 gpu laptop.  Vista.  I go to Firefox menu bar and left click and move across the menu bar: there is a delay in the menu being drawn, I can FEEL the pointer sticking as the mneu is drawn, and as I drag the pointer along i can see the new menu being drawn top-down and bits of the previous menu being erased.  This doesn't even happen on a 14 mhz 68020.  Why? ...

To the guys using 7 year old XP on current hardware: in 5 years time...

Yet here, on my 7 year old PC with PentiumIV 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM, 32MB graphics (no gpu), XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3 -- there is no such faffing, the menus are fine, they just appear in full form, no appreciable delays, no funny drawing, it's all good. So it doesn't sound like it's either the hardware OR the older OS that is to blame. Maybe you've got yours configured badly?

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Hibernate works nicely here.

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@ Karlos
@meega.

I see.  The solution to slow boot times is ........don't turn of fthe computer. May be OK for the minority-yes the majority of users power their machines down.

I do power down my computer - every time it hibernates it shuts down completely. That's what hibernating is all about.

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On vista on my laptop thats a few months old, I can resume fairly quickly from sleep, but resume from hibernation is not apprecaiably faster than cold botting: why would it be.  hibernation just saves everything to the hard drive and opens them up again when you resume by reloading from hard drive.

Now who's having the tin bath?

You think restoring the system state by copying a single contiguous file off hard disk back into RAM will not be appreciably faster than starting all the processes one at a time off that same hard disk?

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Do you even know what hibernate does?

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The criterion is to boot up to what you want to do with the system and that has to involve starting an application.

The application I choose is Firefox...

[meega]

Here is a 1ms mouse.

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How come MP3 sounds like uncompressed linear 16-bit audio?

It doesn't.

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BTW does anyone know WHY Windows and linux need a swapfile even if they use so little available RAM?  I know you can force the swap file size to zero in Windows, but I suspect it still uses a swap file.  And AFAIK Linux won't install without a swap file partition.

Maybe you should try finding out.

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Yeah... I did some reaction-time tests on a BBC micro when I was about 15 years old. These days they "red-flag" sprinters who respond to the gun in less than 0.1s, because it's counted as jumping the gun - but I was able to *average* about 0.08s, with lots of 0.04-0.06s, and that included making a decision as to which hand to use to press a key in response to a square appearing on either the left or right side of the screen. If you were less than 95% accurate on 100 tests then the whole caboodle was discarded - it assumed you were guessing.