Re: Computer restart problem - fix

On Tue, 27 May 2008 17:11:01 -0700, MitchAlsup wrote:

On May 23, 7:38 am, v4vijayakumar <vijayakumar.subbu...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If we just add a power source into computer that would just keep data
in RAM safe, then we wouldn't need computer restarts, right? :)

This reminds me of the first computer I had at my first job. At the end
of the day, you just hit the power button and milliseconds later it was
dead cold. Then in the morning, you pushed the power button again and
presto, within milliseconds it was back where it used to be. {Hint: core
memory}

Then there's all of those ROM-Basic PCs. They started pretty quickly,
and they had the advantage of not having anything important in RAM to
care about when the power went away ... :-)

[On a related note: I wonder how far away we are from a renisanse of
execute-in-place ROM (flash) systems? I know that there's work in the
world of embedded file systems on this front, mostly as a (RAM) space
saving exercise, but boot time gets a benefit too. With 256G laptop
flash file systems coming down the pike...

My third PC was an Acorn Archimedes, which booted into a GUI desktop from
execute-in-place ROM: even that was nicely snappy. Much faster than my
second, which booted CP/M from floppies.]

Cheers,

--
Andrew
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