I would have thought that the "seven nines" uptime would have been easier
to achieve by not rebooting in the firstplace (?) Its not like you can do any
thing useful in three seconds of downtime per annum.
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ronald G Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: are we faster than this?
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:30:25 -0600
>
> General Software has announced the fastest BIOS boot time on record.
The
> embedded system was clocked at 0.8 seconds from system
power-on
> to transfer of control to LILO. This
> was on an Intel SOYO motherboard (440BX chipset) running a PIII
> 400. I think the quote of the article is:
> 'This Embedded BIOS quick-boot operation allows the device to
> restart and resume operations well
> within three seconds -- the maximum amount of downtime allowed
> per year for a device that must
> support "seven nines" or 99.99999 percent uptime.'
>
>
>
> Sorry for the formatting.
>
> Note it is "bios boot time" not "boot time". I think we're lots faster
> than 800 milliseconds!
>
> ron
>
>
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