Interesting, thanks for explaining that!
On Dec 16, 12:19 am, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's not a question of being "locked away", its a question of how it
> works. It works because its implemented as an extension of the BIOS,
> contained in a flash ROM, out of which it runs. It does not even have
> to wait for the harddisk to spin up (which can take several seconds),
> let alone does it need to load itself into memory. Also it does not
> have to do extensive device detection, because it is written for ONE
> specific hardware platform, it only needs to check the RAM, then turn
> on the video card, while it runs directly from FLASH. That is the only
> way to bring the "boot time" into the 6 to 8 seconds realm (currently
> the unoptimized version boots in about double that, but I think it
> can boot much faster than even that) I suspect it will be when
> finished, as Splashtop also takes about that amount of time to run
> too. If there will be a version that runs from say a small disk
> partition, the boot time will be much longer, as spinning up a hard-
> disk and loading the 500MB or so that is needed into RAM will take
> longer, but maybe with a solid state based device like a netbook it
> will be possible to boot almost as fast.
>
> On 16 dec, 04:26, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Completely agree. I know splashtop says it boots within 10 seconds or
> > so. Gos will take longer as far as I can tell.
>
> > I am so excited for it to come out!!
>
> > On Dec 15, 9:41 pm, Genjinaro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I hope not, that would suck.
>
> > > Its bad enough others (Express Gate, Splashtop, etc.) are locked away
> > > like that.
>
> > > On Dec 15, 9:10 pm, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > So does that mean that it wont be available for most computer? Or just
> > > > for certain motherboards?
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