OT Re: Thought about speeding up startup...

[Darren Critchley]

sparkes wrote:

> Darren Critchley wrote:
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>> Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote:
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>> For sure: IBM AS/400 (iSeries) model 170, at least 1/2 hour plus to 
>> come up. Even longer if it was improperly shut down LOL
>>
>> Although I must admit, waiting for my thinkpad to boot Ubuntu can be 
>> a pain :)
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> I see a pattern emerging here ;-)  could it be IBM? lol 

Gee how'd you guess, I work for an IBM business partner, although it has 
been 4 or 5 years since I bought anything IBM.

>
> sparkes (who is currently designing a building a z80 based system for 
> fun, try toggling the boot rom for speed of start up) 

Ohhh I built one of those when I was taking my electronics training many 
eons ago. We got to program it in assembly, we had a uart on it so we 
could connect a terminal and then the grand finally (which allowed you 
to pass or fail the course), was we attached it to a kind of turtle that 
had wheels that where controlled by it, and you had to make it walk a 
maze to pass the course.

Darren