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No. A coin cell wouldn't be used for anything more complicated than keeping a simple real time clock chip powered. Is it possible? Sure, with a level of enginee
by coder543 6y ago
No. A coin cell wouldn't be used for anything more complicated than keeping a simple real time clock chip powered. Is it possible? Sure, with a level of engineering effort that would far outweigh any possible benefit.
If they had something fancy they wanted to do on battery power, they would stick in a Li-ion battery, which they didn't.
- tpmx 6y agoI guess I wasn't super clear. Also, obviously the system is powered on when any disc reading is happening. I was thinking about the issue with key expiration dates and validation. It's not a good user experience to force users to enter the current date every time they boot their offline system.
- coder543 6y agoAh, I agree with that entirely.