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		meaty on Jan 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 6502 CPU's overflow flag explained at the sili... I don't know what you were using but I was booted and operational in under 3-4 seconds on everything I used in the 80s (BBC Master, Acorn A310)

mikeash on Jan 15, 2013 [–]

My Apple IIGS could be "operational" pretty fast if all you were after was a BASIC prompt with no disk access. If you wanted a BASIC prompt with disk access, that took some seconds. If you want to actually load useful software, it took quite a while.

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