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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST- idea
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 01:56:20 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
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- >I actually have got a few, but I'll write about one only... :)
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- >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!)
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- >The idea was to compress the file(lzx makes it 70% smaller) than load it
- >into RAM: decompress it and run fastboot.
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- >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)
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- >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!
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- >How's that?
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- We tryed it on a HD, and that was slower, but making it optional could be
- an idea. Have though of making a fast depacker, but it wouldnt pack too good
- I guess.
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- <sb>Patrick Hanevold - Virtual Reality developer
- <sb>patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no
- <sb>Amiga and official Be developer
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