Quite the contrary. Peolpe come to expect more from their OS than a few years back. If I turn on my machine, I expect it to load the TCP stack, start AmiDock, load a few fonts (with anti-aliasing) and a fancy backdrop for Workbench. Life isn't four color solid-grey workbench anymore. In the same amount that people's expectations grow, the boot time will grow.
I don't think anyone is complaining about AmigaOS being slow. What is really slow is UBoot. It needs about 10 seconds to initialise the IDE drives, waits one second for me to stop it, needs another three seconds to load the Kickstart, then the Kickstart seems to initialise all the hardware again which needs 6 to 8 seconds again and then finally it loads Startup-Sequence which only lasts 3 or 4 seconds until the desktop becomes usable.
So it is *not* Startup-Seqeuence and all the AmigaOS parts loaded after hardware initialisation which makes it slow. It is the pre-boot phase which is annoyingly slow.
At least after Ctrl-Win-Win my A1 is much faster than my A4000. It is a little bit irritating, though, that there is no reaction on Ctrl-Win-Win on the A1. You have to wait all the 6 to 8 seconds until the Kickstart initialises the gfx card for knowing that it still works and has not crashed completely. (I think I did not manage to crash it completely since pre-update #1).
Bye,
Thomas
