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m463today at 3:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

I wonder how much faster dos would boot, especially with floppy seek times...


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userbinatortoday at 3:59 AM

Instantly.

If you run a VM on a CPU like this, using a baremetal hypervisor, you can get very close to "everything in cache".

RulerOftoday at 5:44 AM

You can get close with a VM, but there's overhead in device emulation that slows things down.

Consider a VM where that kind of stuff has been removed, like the firecracker hypervisor used for AWS Lambda. You're talking milliseconds.