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If computer makers put the OS in ROM memory rather than RAM and had a well defined way of overlaying the two so the ROM state could seem to be modified by write
by gregw2 7y ago
If computer makers put the OS in ROM memory rather than RAM and had a well defined way of overlaying the two so the ROM state could seem to be modified by writes to RAM, you could get instant boot. Early PCs worked that way like the Commodore64, right?
- unilynx 7y agoThe Commodore didn't copy itself from ROM to RAM, but that was a trick you could do yourself to speed up BASIC execution - the RAM was faster than ROM
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