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From: philf@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inits & Boot Time
Keywords: INIT
Message-ID: <4101@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 89 19:59:40 GMT
References: <1179@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Sender: philf@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Phil Fernandez)
Reply-To: philf@metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez)
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems
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In article <1179@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> enk@sj.ate.slb.com (Edan Kabatchnik) writes:
>     1) Does the bottleneck arise from the actual loading of the INITs or
>        the seek time in between INITs?  (Of course, this may vary from
>        machine to machine depending on processor, hard disk, etc.)

My theory is disk performance.  I have a IIx and a IIcx, with
identical configurations except for the hard disk performance specs.
The IIcx has an 18ms disk, the IIx a 25ms disk.  

I use quite a few INITs, and I've noticed an extreme difference in
boot-up speek between the machines -- the IIcx boots in just slightly
more than 1/2 the time.  I figure that difference is the time it takes
to chase down and load the INIT code.

pmf

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