> > I do not think it would be as valid today with much faster clock speeds. >
Oh yeah, processors are so fast now, that only a dog would be able to hear the supersonic squeals of the boot sequence. But seriously, I have a 1982 vintage Sansui G-3500 tuner-amplifier on my desk, and when I have the volume way up I can hear the squawking from my work PC as it does intensive work like saving an mp3 file or doing bulk batch builds. I've never tried to correlate the sounds to the workload, but I'm sure it's an art form waiting to be discovered. In 1977 I was told by a Honeywell engineer that one of his colleagues wrote an assembler program on punch cards that could be IPLd (booted) and would play a sequence of musical notes by moving multiple tape drive heads back and forth at certain speeds. In never saw it, but I never doubted it was true. *GK*
