Hi Jochen, I am sure you are correct, the Q60 boots SMSQ/E v3.11 from eprom in about 3 seconds to the Sbasic windows and about about 15 seconds to load ProWesS, QDT, QPAC2, configure the cutom window manager colours and other resident programs, making it around 20 seconds to load the complete system.
Suppose the decompression system could add another second or three, to that time, so I wonder is 25-30 seconds to start the computer up too slow... My Windows XP 3.6Ghz machine takes more than that to load, but then this is a badly written operating system. Derek SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: > Hi Derek, > > >>I think that compressing the operating system would slow things down >>alot. We would end up with a slow system like WIndows, which would >>require 4Ghz machies to make it look and feel reasonable. > > Not necesserily. When SMS2 was put into ROM for the ATARI, > it was MUCH faster to decompress and copy it into RAM. > Decompression is a one-time progress at start-up only, but > every further access to the OS from RAM is much, much faster > than to ROM. So even just copying (with our without compression) > to RAM may speed up the system. > Don't know about the Qx0, but as far as I am aware, EPROMs > used to be slower than RAM access on more or less every system. > > Jochen > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
