yep...this is a yawner...goes back to at LEAST Windows 95...
Funny thing about that: Place it in the How soon we forget category.
i was working for a company that of course had a network. A combination of Windows XP and Windows 2000 machines. A certain machine was controlled by a PC independent of the network. i had to use that machine, so i fired up the PC that controlled it. VERY fast booting. Couldn't believe the speed.
Turns out that it was an old Windows 95 machine.
How soon we forget.