real amiga vs winuae

[Woobagong]

Thinking of booting... I remember the startup-sequence on my Amigas.

I was always asking myself why the Amiga was booting faster with slower hardware. On the Windows PC I always felt as if very much stuff gets started at the same time. The Harddisk is more or less a sequential device, so if programs and services get started concurrently this should explain the constantly burning HDD LED on PC's. The disk is not used in a very wise manner!

The Amiga instead started everything as a sequence, the disk had not to switch back and forth between many locations of programs like it seems to happen on a PC. So... if a PC would boot in a sequencial manner, the boot time would come down a lot, just because there are so many seeks left out.

Does anyone know if my theory has the true of it? I am not completely sure if the Amiga was starting programs really as a sequence during boot time.

[Woobagong]

Ok, so the Windows PC just starts a lot more stuff which slows the system even more down. It could also be, that even if every program would wait for the other until completely loaded, the boot time would be even longer.

No wonder NCQ SATA Disks were developed. These Disks sort out those wild seeks and try to execute them as sequencial as possible.

But hey, funk that disks. Lets go SSD and hope the live as long as a HDD or even longer, fingers crossed. :afro:

[Woobagong]

Was SGI the originator of these custom chip designs? Alas, all these brand names make me just sad. Looking back too long does not make me sleep easier.

[Woobagong]

The C64 and the Amiga were my beginnings in the amazing world of microcomputers. I was not aware that it would become my bread and butter, I just was amazed and loved it. The Emulation can not give me back these moments but it reassures that they are not forgotten. It feels different and I also changed a lot.

WinUAE is a blessing for me tough, it preserves what I loved in my youth. It's like you open a chest with your old toys... it makes you smile and it never really gets old.