1 Jun
2007
1 Jun
'07
5:52 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Cameron Kaiser 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?
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
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_Wh…
A bit skewed, to say the least. The AMD would have won if it were
running a Mac Plus emulator, for example :-)