Generating Constants in TI-57 ROM

[Paul Dale]

I did a side by side speed test some years ago: a Mac+ booting from floppy and a modern PC booting Linux. The Mac+ was up and usable in a couple of seconds, many times faster than the PC.

I know that Linux can be made to boot to a usable command prompt in a second or so -- I used to write firmware for devices that did exactly this fifteen years ago. It was faster and easier to power cycle than to do anything else!


Pauli