Basicly what you are describing here is a design inefficency.
The technology has alot of potential - Ok, that was wrongly put.
An -amazing- potential, if used correctly. So far i've heard that
Amiga computers with only a fraction of the power the today's PC
own are capable of getting similiar results in similiar speeds
simply because their software and design is very efficent.
So just think about that same Amiga with the 700MHz implementation.
A "Beast" cannot describe the result.
So besides the obvious "Windows is bloated" reason, what else
cause the PC to be so inefficent as it could have been? I've seen
some people using alternative OSs (Linux and BSD) and it took
awhile for these platforms to load as well. Its abit weird to see
an old 286 loading faster then a super zippy 1GHz computer!
Obviously the first reason that comes to mind is that the new OSs
are alot more heavy and complicated then the OS we used on a 286.
But does it really have to be so slow?
With those processors, ultra fast HDs, BUS and memory, I would have
expected the computer to be on after 4 seconds or less, after the
basic POST check is done.
This really is puzzeling me.
