Jim Wight <J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk>  wrote:
 > Now that I've had it pointed out to me I can see that there is a
 > momentary pause after the Boot: line is output (I think the interval
 > must have been chosen by an avid games player to whom it probably
 > seems like an eternity :-)

You would more notice the delay if you had my motherboard.  I'd 
be more than happy to trade you motherboards. Mine is a 386-40.

The reason the delay is as short as it is, is because the bootblocks
are maxed out in size so the loop that checks for the key is just
a 'while(i--)' sort of thing rather than something that actually
checks the clock.  I had patches to fix this many moons ago but the
only way I could fit it in was to remove the twiddle() code and 
that was taken to be less than satisfactory by someone who was a
member of the core at the time.

btw, you can hit a key as soon as your machine does the BIOS 
beep and it'll get buffered... 

Personally, I'm used to the non-delay on the P60's at work and
actually prefer it now.