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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by CharlesW on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:23PM (#34792681)
> In the 1990s System 7 would start in a few seconds from hard disk on a Mac SE/30.

A fresh System 7 install on an SE/30 would boot from a hard drive in ~20 seconds. Adding system extensions could double this pretty easily.

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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by j_leboulanger on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:36PM (#34792877)
On a not so fresh install it boots in 13 seconds here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgltFQss3yU Pretty sure mine would boot even faster
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