[rescue] OS X

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > > Not quite as bad as full diags getting turned on for an E6000 or the
> > > like, but pretty slow nonetheless.
> > >
> >
> > Try doing hardware work on a K580.  Those things are excruciatingly
> > slow to boot.
>
> One of the slowest booting system I've worked on is a VAX 8820 with
> 256MB of RAM.  The memory test takes a LONG time.

Many older IBM mainframes take a *very* long time to boot.  Even some
newer ones do.

Peace...  Sridhar