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Re: RamFAST & big drives



Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com> writes:
>SCSI card, which made booting GS/OS a much longer experience.  I miss
>rebooting into ProDOS 8 in half a second. :-(

Most SCSI drives I have used take more than 1/2 a second to complete their
power on self test...

The fastest way to boot ProDOS 8 is from a ROM drive. My IIe clone with
homemade ROMdisk card would boot to the ProSel 8 selector menu before the
amber screen monitor had even warmed up.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia