Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.cpu
Titolo: Avvio Windows XP in un secondo! Arriva l'Instant-ON con le memorie a stato solido.

Grazie alle prime memorie a stato solido!!!!!
PuRam saranno dai 3 ai 5giga  di flash con una banda pari a 400mb in burst
speed e scrittura...sufficienti a caricare in pochi istanti il sistema
operativo!
Instant-ON è arrivato...
http://www.go-l.com/news/press_releases/2004/instant_on_05_2004.htm
05-19-2004 - "go-L" announces the end of an era. The end on computer
rebooting is finally here. Welcome to Instant-On Technology. With
Instant-OnT computers can now turn on, off and and load a full Windows
session in less than one second and in some cases as fast as 1/8th of a
second. Instant-OnT takes advantage of no latency/ extremely high- I/Os
request performance of nonvolatile and non-mechanical PuRam Solid State Disk
Drives and recent advances in both high-bandwidth hardware architectures and
memory technologies, in the very same manner that a PDA or a PocketPC device
wake-up from an Off state.
The following are the requirements and limitations for the use of
Instant-OnT Technology:
- 2GB of available RAM.
- Hyper-Threading class CPU or multiple processor environment is required.
- PuRam drive configured as the bootable system drive and as the only drive
on its channel.
- BIOS configuration set with a PuRam device as the primary and only boot
device.
- Intel 865i/875i and future Alderwood/Grantsdale Chipsets are supported.
- Only WindowsXP Professional is supported. Windows XP Home Edition is not
supported.
- Athlon64 based systems will only be supported on WindowsXP Professional
64-bit Edition.
- Task Scheduler Service is disabled. Apps depending on the service cannot
be run at startup.
- All system independent unnecessary start-up files and routines are
by-passed (such as animated slash screens and Startup audio events for
example).
- If the hardware configuration includes additional single or multiple
standard spinning Hard Disk Drives, the system will only boot after these
have finished spinning-up to working rotational write/read speeds (usually 2
to 5 seconds delay depending on the drive's characteristics).
- In the unlike event of a computer crash, system freeze or blue screen, the
next restart will be a standard boot-up procedure (typically less than 5
seconds with a properly configured PuRAM device).
- If new hardware/software is installed requiring system reboot to activate
drivers or register OCXs for the first time, the following restart will also
be a standard boot-up procedure.
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Interessante. Vedremo se i costi saranno accettabili e se le prove sul campo
saranno positive.

 
http://www.go-l.com/
Mi ricorda vagamente il sito di qualcun'altro... lo stile dei banner, il
layout degli articoli, il design dei portatili...
uhm...
-- 
"It is not enough to succeed.  Others must fail."
Linux Registered User #301571, running Gentoo
Memeber of Luganega - Linux User Group Crema (IT)
http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/

 uhm...
infatti è una ditta che prepara materiale solitamente per mac e per linux

 be a standard boot-up procedure.
Anche questo prevedibile visto come e' fatto il dispositivo.
In pratica e' esattamente un unita di memoria che usa flash-eprom
interfacciato su un canale IDE, l'unica cosa speciale
e' il device driver che gestisce il "supend to ram" simulato
che inizializza la flash-eprom del disco (scrivendoci il boot loader
e la copia del contenuto della memoria al momento del suspend to ram
simulato) e che predispone attiva/disattiva il boot loader
dopo modifiche hardware e setta il rispristino del precedente
boot loader in caso di crash durante il "resume from flash-eprom".
L. Micheletto