MasterType's Writer for the C64 would take so long to load, well more than 5 minutes - First one side of the disk, then the other. It was a very rich-featured word processor.
On 10/2/07, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about "Re: Petition to ask > MainConcept to release MainActor as Open Source software": > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:14:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > [1] On the first computer I ever used, the Commodore 64, a diskette held > > > around 160 KB (if I remember correctly). My new hard disk will contain > > > 320 GB, the equivalent of 2 million (!!) such diskettes. > > > > But boot time was shorter! > > Boot time, yes, but when you actually wanted to run a program, you'd often > sit as much as 5 minutes (!) waiting for for it to load (though there were > "load speedup" utilities that sped this up to just one minute). > > By the way, today, with the advent of hibernate (suspend to disk), boot time > is actually very short. I rarely ever boot my computer from scratch these > days - except when I want to change the kernel. Rather I use the hibernate > feature. Booting up the next time takes about 10 seconds, and I get > everything exectly like I left it. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Oct 2 2007, 21 Tishri 5768 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Business jargon is the art of saying > http://nadav.harel.org.il |nothing while appearing to say a lot. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
