[Coco] The BIGGEST PROBLEM with (So-Called) NEW CoCo Hardware...

[Francis Swygert]

Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 10:33:00 -0600
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>

On Mar 5, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
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> You are kidding about the boot time on the Pi being slow, right?  My Pi boots faster than my Windows 7 computer! I think if you worked at it you could trim some of the unnecessary junk and get the Pi to boot even faster (maybe under 10 seconds).

I wonder how fast a dedicated device could boot? I have four Pis, and all seem to take 30-45 to boot using Raspberrian. Its a problem because we wanted to use them for a ticketing system, but when power would glitch, as it often did out there, they didn't want to hold the line for that long waiting for the system to boot. Haha.=======================================
Stripping down Linux will help, but it wouldn't be hard to make a small battery backup for the RPi either... A 9V battery would back up the RPi itself, just not a monitor or other peripherals. If you're using built-in or SDcard (or even USB stick) for storage that would back up also...
 Frank Swygert
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