AmigaROM for AmigaOS4

[DavidF215]

Back in the day, the Commodore 64/128 and Amiga would boot to a ready state in less than 5 seconds from cold boot. The one thing that always impressed me about the Amiga was how fast it booted and the high responsiveness of the GUI. We need a computer today that can be ready within 5 seconds of a cold boot. Waiting for the computer to boot to a ready state is old and time-consuming.

Is there any possibility that this will ever be achieved again? Particularly with AmigaOS4 or AmigaOS5? AmigaOS has a small footprint, so how about an embedded ROM that works with AmigaOS4 like previous ROMs worked with previous versions of AmigaOS?

[DavidF215]

Rogue wrote:

Amiga would boot to a ready state in less than 5 seconds from cold boot

Huh? Only if you would just switch it on and let it skip startup-sequence. "Back in the day" there where 3.5 inch floppy disks where the seek already took 5 seconds.

My A1200 would boot to Workbench from a slow 80MB drive in about 6 seconds (I timed it a few times.) That was several years ago. Now, it should boot in less than 4 seconds and maybe even less than 3 seconds.

We need a computer today that can be ready within 5 seconds of a cold boot. Waiting for the computer to boot to a ready state is old and time-consuming.

Not really, if the machine and OS is stable you will not reboot too often.

That's not my point. It doesn't matter if the OS is stable or not. The desired solution is a system ready to use fast. Today's memory speeds are faster than those in the 80's. So the boot speeds should be faster today as a result. What are some ROM solutions in which this can be done using AmigaOS4 (or any other OS)?