"You Won't Believe Who Wins"

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jim Leonard wrote:
> Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> This is a fascinating, if somewhat qualitative, comparison of user
>> interface and functionality of a Mac Plus and an AMD dual core.
>> Presented without further commentary.
>>
>> http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins 
>>
> 
> A bit skewed, to say the least.  The AMD would have won if it were 
> running a Mac Plus emulator, for example :-)

I have a 2GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 1GB RAM that gets booted into MS-DOS 
7.1 at least twice a week.  Anyone care to guess the boot time on that?

I tried to time it, but I couldn't.  There was not enough time between 
the end of POST and when the C:\> prompt came up that I couldn't 
physically click the stopwatch fast enough.  And that's *with* a whole 
load of crap running on startup, including QEMM.  I'd guess maybe 1/5 
second.

And I am fairly certain that DOS is using only one of the CPU cores.

Peace...  Sridhar