[dcrazy]

That does not match my memory at all. Booting my family’s 386, even into DOS, was a minutes-long affair involving memory tests and messages like “loading HIMEM.SYS”.

[saulpw]

You're thinking 10 years too late. The TRS-80, C64, Apple ][ all booted in seconds.

[airspresso]

Fun that it has oscillated from instant boot then to minutes-long boot a decade later back to instant boot (or resume to be fair) today.