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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Application launch time
Summary: loading on NeXT
Message-ID: <7554@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 29 Jan 89 22:16:58 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA
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A similar question is why does it take so long for the NeXT to boot?  I
timed it... it takes exactly 5 minutes and 10 seconds and I doubt much
of that was fsck time although I could be wrong...

One reason it takes so long to boot might be that the object oriented
window stuff takes that long to be created, thus it isn't kernel boot
time at all but rather the amount of time taken to build the window
interface.

Thus the time it takes to launch applications might be due to the time
it takes to build objects and set up the window interface for that
particular application.

Just a guess......


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