• GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Except they did instantly boot. I didn’t say anything about how long they took to load a program, and if you had a cartridge, it instantly loaded as well. Have you actually used these computers, or just remember slow tape drives? Not that modern ones are fast by any means either, they just move more data and are prohibitively expensive.

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          19 days ago

          Apple, Commodore all booted into their OS instantly. Disk drives worked, no BIOS needed. Care to explain what you can do with that? You could easily boot DOS within 40 seconds on a 486. Can’t do that on Windows at all these days and we are talking 30 years later.

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              18 days ago

              Except the basic premise is true, and you can’t deny it. Those computers booted to a workable interface far quicker than any modern computer. Modern phones shouldn’t need the same level of bloat as modern computers, so your Linux argument fails there as well. Feel free to let us know when android instantly boots, or iOS, even though both have to support very few ‘different devices and interfaces’.