] Now we've got launchd. The idea now is that instead of
] making the user wait for a bunch of services to start, we
] let launchd fire them both in parallel and
] asynchronously.
]
] I don't want to get extremely specific here for reasons I
] hope are obvious, but on modern (i.e., dual-G5) hardware,
] the time from the end of power-on tests and the
] initialization of Open Firmware to the menu bar and dock
] appearing and the system accepting user input is as
] little as four seconds.
]
] Four seconds to cold-boot the operating system.

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