Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Architecture has some control how all of this happens, but I admit
it isn't a huge determining factor.
> 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.
>From forgetting to set the refresh earlier today.
I'd say about you only get a second or two before you start getting
single bit errors. If you can put the RAM in a self-refresh mode it
should last some longer.
> > 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.
It will be interesting to see if we can do anything with this. This
is very dangerous teritory to go into though. One mistake and you are likely
to loose more than with exisiting systems.
Eric
