Now the question is, how much are you willing to pay for such a beast?

You can whittle down windows to the point where it boots very quickly,
and you can buy a BIOS which gives control to the OS in under three
seconds (The bios is where you'll find your computer spending a lot of
its booting time)

Can you spend $3000 [US] for such a system?  Is it worth it to you to
spend 80-160 hours researching the subject and performing the changes
yourself?

Have you tried hibernation and other ACPI modes where the computer
doesn't boot, per say, but simply comes back to its previous operating
state?

-Adam

Mik Juneau Kim wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for an OS that can do the following for PC hardware or Mac
>hardware. If anyone knows any, let me know.
>
>Criteria: (in order of importance)
>
>1. Boot and fully functional (including network access) in less than 10
>seconds from power up. This should be able to edit PIC source code in server
>in less than 10.5 seconds.
>
>2. STABLE when doing "normal" things such as text editing, compiling code,
>web browsing, spreadsheet, etc. It must have pre-emptive multitasking and
>memory protection and other niceties of modern OS.
>
>3. Speak TCP/IP and NetNEUI and support NFS. Have installable options for
>IPX, Netware, Appletalk via freeware / commercialware / shareware.
>
>4. Support for PIC, Atmel AVR, TI DSP, ARM, Matlab, Xilinx backend tools,
>FPGA/CPLD synthesis suppport (Xilinx or Synplicity), Schematic/PCB layout
>(Protel or Eagle preferred), office suite that includes word processor,
>spreadsheet, database, drawing program.
>
>Win2000 works well for everything except #1 and #2. I always wonder why it
>takes many minutes to boot an OS and why it is so unstable when web
>browsing. I mean, I have a modern processor that runs at giga speeds and HD
>that transfers at over 10 MBytes/sec (sustained). Even 10 seconds of boot
>time means the CPU has over 10 billion cycles and HD has time for over 100
>MBytes.
>
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