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To: LibWhacker

Itty Bitty Machines does it again.

I hope it can be produced economically in large capacities, a gigabyte or more, then it will be able to keep up with modern multicore processors and actually mean something.

Instant-booting a computer can’t happen until its peripherals know how to come up instantly in a known ready state, rather than taking several seconds to initialize and get in sync with the operating system.


2 posted on 07/02/2011 12:00:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Instant-booting a computer can’t happen until its peripherals know how to come up instantly in a known ready state, rather than taking several seconds to initialize and get in sync with the operating system.

With todays technology, it shouldn't be too hard. Similar to telling a BIOS it doesn't have to do a discovery check each boot. A couple discovery tweaks for new peripherals shouldn't be too hard to incorporate. All it will require is a little more standardization.

9 posted on 07/02/2011 4:18:47 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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