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Dutch legend has been running his campsite since 1986 using an Atari ST:
If there's one thing YouTuber Viktor Bart likes, it's retro computers: his channel is dedicated to videos about building old machines, their functions, cool oddities, and just generally the joy of these beige things. Even Mr. Bart, however, was surprised by what he found in Koningsbosch, in the Dutch province of Limburg: a campsite that's been run since 1986 on an Atari ST.
[Ed note: Is there anybody here who has an Atari ST? Please share your experience in the comments.
I bought its predecessor, an Atari 800, in 1980. Even got an expansion cartridge to boost memory from the on-board 8 KB RAM. Yes, I spent countless hours playing Star Raiders. It was not as capable as the Atari ST, but it was a fun system that booted up instantly!]
(Score: 3, Touché) by Marand on Monday October 04 2021, @02:01PM
Depends on your hardware and OS. I can get from GRUB to login in about 5s on a Ryzen laptop with NVME storage, which isn't *instant* but is close enough. It actually takes longer to get past the UEFI "bios" than it does to boot Debian, but only because it's intentionally delaying for user input. Also none of those insane printer driver packages Windows has, either.
It's taken decades but we finally got back to suitably fast boot times, assuming you don't use a toy OS whose only real value is playing PC games.