Whereas my Squeak environment comes up in a second. No, it isn't an "OS," or not anymore anyway. But it pops right where I left it. The system that supports it is lucky to boot in a minute... and I can't easily prove it, but...
I have this *feeling* that my OS is doing a lot durring boot to set up things I never use in a suboptimal way. And it doesn't even come up exactly where I left it. It *tries* by reopening various things and *sometimes* it works well enough that I don't notice that something is broken. Usually, though, I'm sitting there wondering why I have to spend minutes of my day waiting for the tool that I need to do my job to become available. This sucks. Rebooting at all is a PITA. That it takes minutes, I think, is just lack of forethought or designing for the wrong use case. </rantypants /> On Dec 16, 2011, at 7:10 PM, John Zabroski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Steve Dekorte wrote: >> >>> [NeXTStation memories versus reality] >> >> I still have a running Apple II. My slowest working PC is a 33MHz 486, >> so I can't directly do the comparison I mentioned. But I agree we >> shouldn't trust what we remember things feeling like. >> >> -- Jecel > > > The Apple booting up faster was not simply a feeling, but a fact owing > to its human-computer interaction demands. They set fast boot speeds > as a design criteria. Jef Raskin talks about this in the book The > Humane Interface. Even modern attempts to reduce boot speed have not > been that good, such as "upstart", an event-driven alternative to > "init". > > Eugen has some very good points about human limits of managing > performance details, though. Modern approaches to performance are > already moving away from such crude methods. > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
