yup, and since it was it was on a chip, it didn't take up any memory either...
Posted on 08/16/2008 5:43:25 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
From the "who needs a pre-load when you're embedded" files:
Dude - if you're getting a Dell then you're getting Linux.
No you don't have to order one of those fancy Ubuntu pre-load deals. This is an embedded Linux that will be available on a whole bunch of new Dell Latitude laptops in a feature called Latitude ON. This is a feature that uses an embedded Linux to allow for instant on access to email, calendar and Internet.
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yup, and since it was it was on a chip, it didn't take up any memory either...
Not correct. There was a reason that the Commodore 64 powered up and displayed around 32k RAM free. The basic interpreter and kernel were copied from ROM into RAM at power up for execution (fetching instructions from RAM is much faster than ROM) and other parts of RAM were used for OS housekeeping, etc.
The bigger games/programs for the C64 would "kick" the basic interpreter out of RAM to get that space free which required restarting the machine when the program finished.
Oh I've done it a couple times myself, but I only did so to see how to do it. Its rare these days to find occasions that one needs to recompile the kernel.
and now, thankfully, memory problems are now mere memories...
Mac, Amiga and Atari ST all had the full OS on a ROM back then. I remember you could run Mac on the ST if you had the Mac ROMs in a cartridge (both were M68K systems, but the ST was clocked a bit higher).
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