As I see that, it depends on what you understand by "instantly". Almost
all Apple IIs depend on CRT monitors, which take about 3-5 seconds to
warm up. I think those few seconds are more than enough to transfer the
16 Kb ProDOS kernel and the 10 Kb BASIC.SYSTEM (or any other shell, such
as Catalyst) from a static RAM into main memory, and initialize them
before the video is working. I'm not an expert hardware engineer, but I
don't think that a static RAM device would need a time-consuming
initialization.
Greetings,
Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan)
<ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/>
richard jackson escribió:
: Only in the fact that it's flash memory--the battery backup
: keeps the info available all the time for an "instant-on"
: computer, right?
Not possible. It has been discussed in CSA2.
It is possible, just alot of work.
If you want an "instant ON" apple II, burn a ROM with
Dos3.3 or PRODOS on it.
Rich
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