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Booting A PIII System In .8 Seconds
gizmo_mathboy writes: "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.'"
Hey, I think I've seen that "bitchslap" thing in use. Once, somebody posted the same message a million times, and somehow they all got a score of -1 immediately.
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Hmm, I just noticed this was the 69th post. I think. Damned slashcode!
Who cares if you take .8 seconds to LILO? You don't have to boot a Linux machine 32,767 times a day anyway!!!!
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The reason his code is so ugly and unmanageable is it is PERL! Hopefully someday he will use Python or Ruby.