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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by vacri on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:13AM (#13261408)
Win98SE took four and a half minutes to boot to usability. It crashed so often, than I timed it to see how much time I was wasting. Unfortunately I can't remember the system specs, but it was a pretty run-of-the-mill pc of the day, neither light- nor heavyweight.

Other versions of windows, I couldn't tell you. Have used everything from 3.11 to 10, skipping 8. Never felt the need to time them.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by amiga-workbench on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:18AM (#13261429)
I've got a Pentium II system on my desk running off a cheap CF card that boots in a minute. What was your setup like hardware wise?
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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by vacri on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:33AM (#13261479)
I honestly can't recall. Probably a PII. My 4.5 minutes is 'time to usable desktop', not 'time to login / visible desktop', since W98 was visible long before you could interact with it (that interaction was usually "load up that game again, dammit!"). It also used a hard drive of the day, not flash card. I don't recall having much in the way of shovelware installed that might slow it down, but maybe I did?

Sorry, as anecdatums go, I realise this one is pretty poor quality.

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