Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds

Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by smoldesu on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:06PM (#28971757)

Today's laptops and the majority of desktops boot more than 10x faster than they did a decade ago, so for all but the youngest users I feel like this point is moot. There was an age where you had to go get a coffee while your hard drive started spinning up, I remember kids starting their Macbooks before they got in the car for school so they'd be booted by the time they were in class...

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by bitwize on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:15PM (#28971831)

When I was a kid, kids weren't issued MacBooks for class. There was a single, lone Apple II in the back we played Oregon Trail on -- and it took a fair few minutes to load from floppy.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by nl on Saturday October 23, 2021 @06:35PM (#28973041)

A floppy drive? Get off my lawn

On my C64 I'd start loading a game from cassette tape before dinner so I could play it afterwards.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by jamiek88 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @02:45AM (#28975482)

Cassette? Pah!

I had to type the games source code in from a magazine for my acorn electron.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by noizejoy on Saturday October 23, 2021 @08:15PM (#28973663)

Cassette tape?

Punched tape[0]: Hold my beer

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by nl on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:52AM (#28975075)

I don't think punched tape or punched card was ever used for a personal computer though.

The Altair launched with a cassette tape interface anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by noizejoy on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:54PM (#28991642)

Fair enough, but would it be fair to argue that personal computer is a pricing distinction, rather than a technology distinction?

In my mental model, the technology distinction is more between single user and multi-user systems. And arguably that is more a a software differentiator than a hardware difference.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds by gzer0 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:46AM (#28975052)

Floppy drive?

On my 9 track tape I would be lucky if the thing loaded and was ready to use 72 hours later [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_track_tape

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