23 Jun
2007
23 Jun
'07
2:24 p.m.
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, dwight elvey wrote:
It is too bad Windows and the PC group didn't
continue the OpenFirmware
concept. This is the dominant reason why Windows takes so long to boot.
It basically has to hunt for hardware by timing out rather than not seeing
any boot configuration code. It was a bad move that has cost millions if
not billions of dollars worth of lost productive time.
I used to make my students calculate the total cumulative time taken up by
Windows bootstrapping. Then I made them divide it out into how many LIVES
it cost.