[Chode]

it was in one of the trade mags... instead of loading windows etc on a hard drive it had half a dozen chip sockets and one of chips had the whole windows os on it, same with Lotus. it was the ultimate copy protection scheme.

the thing never took off though. it was supposed to be real fast cause it never had to look at the disk. i only saw the ad a couple times and that was, well, back in the 80's, but i want to say it was called the WinBook. the ad showed the the chip socket bay with the cover off and one of the chips said Lotus on it.

[DeFault User]

Windows on a chip...

I seem to remember the same type of thing...a hardwired OS or chip that was to be virus proof, but could be somehow updated at a later date. Sounded like a great idea at the time but nothing came of it.

The old C64 had its OS built in too, but that was little more than Basic.