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Re: boot test
« on: November 16, 2006, 03:43:49 AM »
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So x86 fans,why does a brand new PC reboot thirteen times slower than a 15 year old Amiga even though it has a processor thats (supposedly) forty-seven times faster?

Because boot time is not dependant on processor speed. Most time is spent on disk I/O and waiting for hardware to become ready. 15 year old Amiga loads maybe 1/50th of the data the modern Windoze installation does, too.

Then again you only need to wait Windows boot up once, whereas Amiga keeps crashing frequently... ;-)