Well, i'll still call it "design inefficency", even though
refering on to the boot sequence.
I have afew notes, though (and I always do. Oh, pesky me.):
1)My machine, a 350MHz and my Sister's machine, 1GHz only check
the memory once per boot, and not twice.. the last machine that
checked it twice that I owned was my trusty 486, that was blown up
during a power failure... may it chipset rest in peace.
Could be that the menufactor of your BIOS decided to keep the
tripple check for some obscure reason.
2)The general description of the machine checking for the built-in
stuff that should "obviously" be there might sound abit silly,
but its still necessary for checking up on failures. If there is
one major thing that you could say about modern PCs is that they
are alot more sensitive then their predecessors. Its simply amazing
how easily you could damage a brand new machine, and in contrast:
how much punishment an XT can take.
But its still abit useless, so what i'd think is best is if the
BIOS had an option for turning off some of the checks. I dont
think that it would be too hard for BIOS companies to implement..
3)You cant trow away PnP and USB. PnP is now too much around to ignore,
and USB is the "Next big thing" because, from a user perspective,
it is concidered alot easier to use, and is helluva faster then
the common serial and parallel connections.
...now if only its support on alternative systems was abit more
wide spread instead of mostly Windows specific products... :/
(cant stand all that hype, too.)
