Why did it take such a long time for windows to boot up back in the day compared to today’s operating systems?

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I understand that processing power was lacking but surely the os of yore must have had much smaller requirements. Also let’s assume we are booting up offline and no updates are indicated. What was Windows doing for 3 – 5 minutes that my android phone manages to zip through in 15 seconds?

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Solid State Drives can read up to 7500 MB per second, where even the best Hard Disk Drives would barely reach 45 MB per second.

Loading an operating system is not like loading just another app, so that read speed made a huge difference.

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