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Booting A PIII System In .8 Seconds

Posted by timothy on from the no-more-beauty-sleep-time dept.

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.'"

2 of 353 comments (clear)

  1. Man... by Syberghost · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can you imagine a B...

    ...never mind.

  2. Uh, dude, those files have been deleted from /code by devphil · · Score: 2, Offtopic


    Perhaps you missed, or chose to ignore, the fact that the links you posted to the CVSweb filter are calling files out of the Attic.

    The Attic is for deleted files.

    So, bitchslap and modslap aren't being used anymore. Yeah, the spirit of consorship probably lives on in other pieces of /. but you do your cause a disservice by pulling up deleted code and treating it like it's live.

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