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MS hints at "instant on" OS idea

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  • #2
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    just don't turn it off


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Sounds like a plan to me, especially on the go if you just want to send a mail or something, an 8 second boot time from cold would be awesome!


  • #4
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    It might be similiar to the Think Vantage suite on IBM Lenovos?


  • #5
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Anybody with express gate can do this already, takes about 5 seconds.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    *yawn*
    If any of you ever had a home pc like a spectrum / BBC / atari you switch it on , it goes BEEP and it says ready , 2 or 3 seconds tops

    PC manufacturers have been providing support for suspend for ages , VISTA does this by default because it is so slow to do a full boot

    I can't find the exact like but IIRC pc 97 or the one after had a spec for booting up within 15-20 seconds , a decade late processors are 100 times faster
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_97

    In the linux world you get a command prompt in the background before X windows has fully loaded, they could do something similar with powershell or command console


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  • #7
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Some nutters have got Ubuntu booting (from power on to desktop) on an Asus Eee in 5 seconds. There's a video on youtube. My one takes about 40 seconds to do the same. Apparently they modified the hell out of the kernel to make it boot as fast as possible.


  • #8
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/fastboot/default.mspx
    The design goals for Windows XP on a typical consumer PC are:
    • Boot to a useable state in a total of 30 seconds
    • Resume from Hibernate (S4) in a total of 20 seconds
    • Resume from Standby (S3) in a total of 5 seconds

    Boot and resume times are measured from the time the power switch is pressed to being able to start a program from a desktop shortcut.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865
    The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Home Edition are:
    • Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
    • At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)

    From that we could infer that XP is supposed to boot up in 30 seconds on a 300MHz PC with 128MB !

    Todays PC's are more than 4 times faster than a 300MHz Pentium I so 8 seconds doesn't seem like a hard target.

    A lot of windows slowness must be because of timeouts, but it takes so bloody long to install and it locks it self to the specific hardware so much that they really should have them sussed by the time it installs.


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