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by userbinator 1459 days ago
but I can see why Microsoft didn't want to go for that approach.

Yet Windows 95 has a message in its hardware detection dialog which tells you to restart the computer if it stops responding for a long time while it's detecting hardware --- and I believe it writes to the disk its progress, so it'll remember where it was and skip it the next time.

One wonders why neither MS nor Linux did that for HLT. Linux has a no-hlt boot parameter to disable its use.