Hey! This PC is booting faster than my Amiga :)

[Iggy]

Sure it is faster to boot, it's à Tandy 1000, DOS and Deskmate (GUI) is in ROM..

Yes, I sold those when I managed a franchised Radio Shack.
If you want to run Windows you have to move up to a 1000 RLX or RSX, and then everything boots off a rather slow IDE drive.

OS on ROM do boot the fastest.

[Iggy]

Did they release update ROM's when a new version came out?  Or were you kind of stuck with what you had?
 
 (I assume something of that era wasn't flash-able)

Usually an upgrade involved disabling the RM and installing the new software via floppies.
I found that out the hard way when installing a hard drive in one of these.
If you left the ROM enabled, not all for the OS would install, then it needed the Rom'd portions to boot (are weird problem).

I wonder if you could upgrade those ROMs?

And, for that matter, if a similar boot setup could be created on a more modern computer.