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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by TheOtherHobbes on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:45PM (#23274861)
Win 95 and its descendants had legendary poor boot times.

Things finally improved with XP, but W3.1x and W95 were anything but fast - unless you were playing Solitaire.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by WillPostForFood on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:37PM (#23277338)
Here is a Pentium 200Mhz starting Win95, only about 20 seconds from "Starting Windows 95" to the login screen. 40 seconds including the full powerup/BIOS sequence. Not too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRR7-P-8fc

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