From: Michael Loftis <zop12 AT mindless DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: An updated DOS - Please discuss
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:18:18 -0600
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aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi wrote:

> michael AT toobie DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Michael Kearns) wrote:
> >
> > My knowledge of Linux isn't as good as it should be, but whenever I have
> > used it, it has the following 'aspects' which I don't see as very DOS-like.
> >
> > Boot time - This is generally quite long, even compared to windows.

Coming in kinda off on this...

This depends on what you consider boot-time to mean.  If you mean from the time
the BIOS Hands over to the boot loder and the boot loader has the kernel in a
state where it can go multi-user then Linux is extremely short.  If you consider
this to be until the Login prompt is and all services are started Linux still
wins because NT pops the login box up before it even gets its networking up.

IT's hard to define boot-time properly especially where NT fires itself up and
opens a login box whilest trying to initialize everything else.

>
>
> Well, not compared to windows NT.

I'll agree, NT on my P-133 takes 3-4x longer to boot than Linux on my DX2/66.
(And it takes some time to mount a 30Gig EXT2FS filesystem!)