Re: Boot up speed

[!smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer)]

>
>    With my current setup, consisting of RamFAST SCSI with 1 MB
>cache, 4500 RPM/10-12ms SCSI mechanism and a 15 MHz accelerator,
>I can shift-boot System 6.0.1 and have the Finder desktop
>appear in 4-5 seconds. It takes roughly 3 times longer to boot
>without a shift-boot, but I have two full rows of icons show
>up on screen during the "Welcome to the IIgs" screen. I only
>wish I had this kind of setup a decade ago, it certainly was
>painful waiting for ProDOS 16 to boot from 800K floppies. Ugh.
>


I was just pondering the same thoughts about a week ago. I was saying to myself 
"Why didn't I have this setup in 1989". 8MB RAM, 240MB hard disk, Ramfast, 
Transwarp etc etc etc.

Gee, I paid over $3000 for MUCH LESS way back when, and now for under $700.00, 
I have the IIgs system that I always wanted but would have cost me over 
$6000.00 in 1989.

Kind of gives you the fuzzies, eh?

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