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From: baffoni@alcor.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.6 & Re: Hold that computer...
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Date: 12 Jul 90 01:57:35 GMT
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In article <1990Jul6.190229.19792@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> AAron@image.soe.clarkson.edu (AAron nAAs) writes:
>From article <1990Jul6.030726.24719@wolves.uucp>, by brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels):
>> 
>> How does one go about constructing a circuit that will hold off
>> the 1040ST until the hard drive gets up to speed?
>> (other than the listen and then flip switch interface  :-)
>> 
>
>By the way, TOS 1.6 waits about 6 seconds for the harddrive to get up to
>speed before continuing to boot.
>
>Not having a harddrive, I just find this annoying.  :)

    Is that all it does?  Wait 6 seconds?  Couldn't they be using that time
for something useful?  Like maybe a memory check or something?  It seems 
awfully silly to be wasting time that could be put to good use...

(just my $.02 worth).


>
>AAron nAAs

-Mike Baffoni

(sorry, no .sig - no $$ - no time.  The only yes I here is "Yes, its bill time")