News Burst: Nerds strive to find world's slowest NT box
Published: 29 Oct 1999 09:34 BST
The contest, initiated by nerdperfect.com , self-confessed news channel for high-tech slackers, began in earnest today, with clear guidelines for slowness posted on the group's homepage.
Timing can be recorded for rebooting any NT system . Stop-watches should be started from the moment a user selects "yes" on a warm reboot, and stopped when the NT desktop appears, and all operating system elements have loaded.
Current records for slowness range from quite slow, at 7 minutes, 27 seconds, to extraordinarily slow, at 49 minutes, 13 seconds.
Are any of your machines even slower to reboot? Will another OS prove slower than NT? Tell the Mailroom
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