Gee, even 20 secs seems slow :-)

33 mhz 68LC040, disk that delivers its reads via 
packet radio bounced off the moon (it seems)

less than 5 secs

cheers

bruce

Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Andrew Berg <andrew_c_berg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I recently downloaded the latest Squeak 3.4.1 image and VM for windows, and 
> > installed onto my laptop, which is a 1GHz Pentium IIIm with Windows XP and 
> > 512MB of ram.  I only mention that because from the time that I double- 
> > click my shortcut to 'squeak.exe squeak.image' to the time that I see a 
> > window appear it seems to vary from 1 to 3 minutes, and once up the mouse 
> > moves very slowly and jerkily across it, and windows do not drag around 
> > smoothly, etc.
> Something must be _very_ wrong for this to happen. On my 200MHz
> StrongARM machine it usually takes 20 seconds or so to start up and that
> is bad enough. On a friends tabletPC it takes barely 3-5 seconds and on
> my ancient 400MHz pBook it doesn't take much longer.
> 
> Has somebody put some dreadful net-dependant startup code in recently?
> 
> tim
> 
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Useful random insult:- She's a screensaver:  Looks good, but useless.