"Georg Wrede" <georg.wr...@iki.fi> wrote in message news:gos7ma$h4...@digitalmars.com... > BCS wrote: >> Reply to Sean, >> >>> We had a couple of Wang Word Processors (I think) in our school that >>> used those, but I never got to touch one. Only the PETs that used an >>> external audio cassette drive for data storage. Probably took a full >>> 60 seconds to load a program from one of those things... not too >>> shabby for a whole 4k. >> >> Computers now have literally orders (many orders) of magnitude more space >> and power and the load times for real program haven't even improved by >> even a single order of magnitude. :b > > You're joking, right? > > They've got worse, by orders of magnitude. A 5 second boot with the > Kaypro, versus (don't even know how long) for Vista on an average > computer. Or firing up OpenOffice. (I've got a quad-core screamer now that > I got fed up with using only old hardware, and OO still is slow to start.) > > My VIC-20 booted up in less than 2 seconds. > > ---- > > Ok, they're trying. Windows-7 boots up a lot faster than Vista. And > Fedora-10 much faster than my Ubuntu or an older Fedora. And Fedora has > promised the next release to "really boot fast". But still... > > With Windows 3.3 on a crappy 386 with a slow hard disk, Excel and Word > were on almost as soon as you double clicked the icon. > > If one wants truly Blazing Speed, get Wine and install W95 on it with > Office-95. And for compilation and programming, Borland Pascal from the > same era.
And then there's shut-down speeds. It amazes me how long to takes to flush some IO, kill a few connections, and do god-knows-what with a bunch of ram that's just going to get cleared anyway.
