"You Won't Believe Who Wins"

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Sat Jun 2 00:18:50 CDT 2007


Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2007 at 20:52, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> There was a PS/2 with DOS-in-ROM.  I wonder how fast that boots.  

Sure you aren't thinking of the Tandy TL series?  Those has DOS in ROM. 
  I don't know of any PS/2 with DOS in ROM.

And yes, they boot hella fast -- about 1.5 seconds after you hit the 
reset button.
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