1-second kernel

[Les Mikesell]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:29:37 -0600
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
>> One other thing - was the Amiga booting from ROM?
> 
> Depends on the Amiga.  On the 500 and 1000 models, you had to boot from a
> Kickstart disk, then boot from a Workbench disk.  The 2000 had a Kickstart rom,
> but you then had to boot Workbench from a disk (either a 3.5" floppy or a hard
> drive).

I thought this concept was coming around again with some new PC's having 
Linux in ROM for near-instant on for certain operations?  Maybe the best 
approach for the people who care about boot speed would be to figure out 
how to get 'your' version of Linux into these ROMs.

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   Les Mikesell
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