From: michael AT toobie DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Michael Kearns)
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Subject: Re: An updated DOS - Please discuss
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:56:06 GMT
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:18:18 -0600, Michael Loftis <zop12 AT Mindless DOT com>
wrote:

>
>
>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!)

Apologies.

As I mentioned in another thread, I should not have used Windows as an
example, as everyone quotes NT time which isn't particularly good as a
control.

regards,

Michael.