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- From: mryba@MCS.COM (Michal L. Rybarski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Want to boot FAAAST- idea
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 11:06:44 -0600
- Organization: MCSNet Services
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- Hi, all.
-
- I actually have got a few, but I'll write about one only... :)
-
- Once, I tried use fastboot with disk drive. It worked ok, however the
- speed wasn't to good: 35sec with fastboot and 46 w/o
- I belive that I don't have to tell what was the problem, but I tell
- anyway: disk drive is so sloooow. However, after few more tries I was
- able to boot from the disk not in 46sec but 24!( That is something!)
-
- The idea was to compress the file(lzx makes it 70% smaller) than load it
- into RAM: decompress it and run fastboot.
-
- Now, I looked through the GrabbeMemory file and it whould be preaty
- straightforward to compress it and decompress it on the fly(there are
- lots of repeating patterns, and lots of zeros close to each other). An XPK
- compressor(forgot which one) compressed it with the speed of 215k/sec and
- decompressed with ~470k/s.(~60% smaller file)
-
- Why I bothered? It seems to me that if AT still sells Amigas with disk
- drive only (brrrr...) it whould be preaty cool to make them boot faster.
- Especially if someone whould want to use them for surfing the net: it
- would not only require one disk to boot, but it would take less time to
- actually begin surfing!
-
- How's that?
-
- Michal
-