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

[Dave Philipsen]

I'm sure that if a person wanted to customize a Pi enough and optimized 
it for a specific purpose you could get it to boot almost 
instantaneously.  Don't forget that Raspbian Linux is the just the 
preferred system.  If the Pi only had to do what a CoCo does it could 
boot even faster than a CoCo.

Dave


On 3/5/2017 10:35 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Mar 5, 2017, at 10:32 AM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I also have the PiDP-8 from Oscar V. and he provides a stripped down version of the Linux OS that boots up, establishes WiFi connection and starts SimH with the PDP-8 simulator running in well under 10 seconds.  So, it can be done.
> Still a lifetime compared to how fast the CoCo boots. :)
>
> Ten seconds might not be bad. Imagine if the SDC had to make us wait ten seconds every time we booted before we could boot OS-9 or type DIR.
>
> BUT! Since we could do this for $10 plus a case, cheap USB cell phone charger, and some interface circuits, I think we could sell hundreds of them.
>
> I will be working on my version of this, actually.
>