On Wed, 23 May 2001, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> I seem to remember there are computer architectures that don't actually
> lose the contents of their RAM during a soft boot...and with Clever
> Tricks(tm) you could effectively start where you left off.
it's nothing to do with the architecture.
dynamic ram, which we all use for the most part, will retain its contents
without refresh for "a while". How long this is depends on a lot of
things.
> Is this a potential application for LinuxBIOS?
We're talking about it here. We call it "resurrection". Old core-memory
machines used to do this all the time.
>Is it actually the BIOS that's zero'ing the RAM on the PC?
It's our friend the bios.
> Or is it more tightly coupled to a
> hardware reset?
no. The only implication of hardware reset is that on some machines
refresh stops for a while. That's it.
ron
