Too gawd damn much! Go back to an Apple II, An Atari 800, A Sinclare ZX80, You turn them on. They execute a few instructions and then are ready to use. Contrast to my linux boxes that are a million times faster but takes ~2 minutes until I can use them.
Yea, I know, things have changed for reasons
Still... It's sad to me how long things take to get started and all of those 100s and 1000s of layer are each full of vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered.
There were no sticks then, just RAM chips on the mainboard or on an expansion card fitted in the back of the computer.
ZX80 was built to cost 100GBP, a big chunk of that was the memory since it used expensive SRAM chips.
I used to use “describe the Linux boot process” as an interview question. It was really fun to see what different people saw was important to mention, and a great way to judge people’s depth.
Too gawd damn much! Go back to an Apple II, An Atari 800, A Sinclare ZX80, You turn them on. They execute a few instructions and then are ready to use. Contrast to my linux boxes that are a million times faster but takes ~2 minutes until I can use them.
Yea, I know, things have changed for reasons
Still... It's sad to me how long things take to get started and all of those 100s and 1000s of layer are each full of vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered.