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I recall windows 95/98 being pretty slow to boot. I also recall being warned by teachers not to move the mouse while things were booting as that would allegedly
by zeroimpl 6y ago
I recall windows 95/98 being pretty slow to boot. I also recall being warned by teachers not to move the mouse while things were booting as that would allegedly slow things down further.
These days the only real time I wonder "wtf is this thing doing" is when I'm waiting about 5-10 seconds for my mac to wake up from sleep.
- shanemhansen 6y agoSurprisingly, wiggling the mouse actually speeds up some windows operations. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoWin 95 and its descendants had legendary poor boot times. Things finally improved with XP, but W3.1x and W95 were anything but fast - unless you were playing Solitaire.
- WillPostForFood 6y agoHere is a Pentium 200Mhz starting Win95, only about 20 seconds from "Starting Windows 95" to the login screen. 40 seconds including the full powerup/BIOS sequence. Not too bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRR7-P-8fc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRR7-P-8fc