socalgal2
5 months ago
> What happens during startup?
Too gawd damn much! Go back to an Apple II, An Atari 800, A Sinclare ZX80, You turn them on. They execute a few instructions and then are ready to use. Contrast to my linux boxes that are a million times faster but takes ~2 minutes until I can use them.
Yea, I know, things have changed for reasons
Still... It's sad to me how long things take to get started and all of those 100s and 1000s of layer are each full of vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered.
butlike
5 months ago
The hackers keep it all honest. The technology should progress at a decent rate.
skeezyboy
5 months ago
when i look back at those machines im surprised people were willing to learn to use them.
bzzzt
5 months ago
There was nothing better available at that time and there was a lot less to learn. The entire BIOS and BASIC interpreter of the ZX80 fitted in 4Kb...
skeezyboy
5 months ago
how much would another stick of ram have been? or at least an onboard gpu
bzzzt
5 months ago
There were no sticks then, just RAM chips on the mainboard or on an expansion card fitted in the back of the computer. ZX80 was built to cost 100GBP, a big chunk of that was the memory since it used expensive SRAM chips.