I remember computers used to take sooo long to start up, that you can press the power button and go make yourself a sandwich. What changed? Hardware got faster obviously, but software also got more complicated and there are more of them to load up no?
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Solid state drives, mostly. The OS is now often put on a solid state drive, rather than a big ‘ol set of spinning platters, from where it can be read into memory very quickly.
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