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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.'"

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  1. I don't know about booting... by The_Messenger · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but I can certainly crash one that fast. AMD rul3z j00r 4$$!

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