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How much firmware is initializing??? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by DudemanJenkins@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will date myself. These machines had a lot of memory as well which added to the slow reboot. I think it was 16 gigs.

The r series for IBM took forever. The p series was faster but was still slow

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll date myself. My first PC had 500MB of STORAGE

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My first pc had a tape drive.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had a friend with one of those while I had an Atari. The Atari game would come up within a minute, but the tape took like 15 min to start.

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Using a tape drive is crazy when you think about it. It was slow…. This wasn’t the big tape cartridges. It was a standard Audio tape. Not sure why they could store but it was all sequential

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never ask an engineer why lol

Source: am engineer

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee -3 points 2 months ago

Meant that as what about they could store.

Why I know. Go play it and you’ll see how they did it.

I am curious who said. You know am audio take will create a great experience.