I'm thinking of this as something that ALL Macs would benefit from. I would love
it if I could just save my current RAM state on my PM 6500 and then just pick up
where I left off! If you think it's possible, would Apple have to implement it
in the OS, or is it something some third party software company could develop?
Even if it were slower than the iBook, I've got to think it would be
significantly faster than most system's startup times now.
"Timothy A. Seufert" wrote:
> It is probably partially a function of the new ROMs, and partially of the
> operating system.
>
> It should be possible for them to add this feature to the Bronze KB
> PowerBook G3, since it has flash ROM which can be updated.
>
> It may be possible to do this entirely in software for older PowerBooks
> which lack flash ROM. It probably wouldn't be as fast, but I can conceive
> of how it could be done. That doesn't mean that Apple is going to expend
> the effort to do it though (or even the effort to do it for the current PB
> G3). In fact, there may be some gotchas about the hardware which prevent
> this from being done on machines other than the iBook, so don't take me
> saying it's possible as an absolute indication of plausibility.
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