Comments on: AutoCAD 2009 - The Prequel Part 6 - First Startup Time http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/ A strange mix of AutoCAD, music, image manipulation and video Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:46:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Bill Fane http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Bill Fane Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:47:47 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/#comment-56 I still have a Toshiba T1000, arguably the world's first laptop. It's a 4.7mHz XT, 512k RAM, 1 of 720kB floppy drive, 756k virtual RAM drive, monochrome text-only display. DOS is burned onto a PROM chip. Power on to WordPerfect: 4.5 seconds. Our first AutoCAD station was a 6mHz AT with 2mB RAM, 20mB hard drive, DOS 3.0, AutoCAD 2.17g, and Tecmar Graphics Master board (640x480, 256 colour). It would go from a power-on cold boot to the AutoCAD Command: prompt in under 30 seconds. My current station is a 3.0 gHz, dual core, 2gB RAM, Windows XP. It takes over 3 1/2 minutes to get to the same point. That's progress, I guess... I still have a Toshiba T1000, arguably the world’s first laptop. It’s a 4.7mHz XT, 512k RAM, 1 of 720kB floppy drive, 756k virtual RAM drive, monochrome text-only display. DOS is burned onto a PROM chip. Power on to WordPerfect: 4.5 seconds.

Our first AutoCAD station was a 6mHz AT with 2mB RAM, 20mB hard drive, DOS 3.0, AutoCAD 2.17g, and Tecmar Graphics Master board (640×480, 256 colour).

It would go from a power-on cold boot to the AutoCAD Command: prompt in under 30 seconds.

My current station is a 3.0 gHz, dual core, 2gB RAM, Windows XP. It takes over 3 1/2 minutes to get to the same point. That’s progress, I guess…

]]> By: Robin Capper http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Robin Capper Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:09:32 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/#comment-34 I wonder how it would be on comparative equipment. You have a good machine current machine but would the oldies have taken longer on their "state of the art" workstations when launched. I remember my first CAD box, 486 dx33, CorelDRAW used to come up with something like "nearly ready..." on the splash screen. I wonder how it would be on comparative equipment. You have a good machine current machine but would the oldies have taken longer on their “state of the art” workstations when launched.

I remember my first CAD box, 486 dx33, CorelDRAW used to come up with something like “nearly ready…” on the splash screen.

]]> By: Andre http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Andre Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:38:34 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/03/03/autocad-2009-the-prequel-part-6-first-startup-time/#comment-26 it's all that eye candy. r12-r14 were lean and mean. the current software has become so bloated. it’s all that eye candy. r12-r14 were lean and mean.
the current software has become so bloated.

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