Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> > On 23 May 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > > > We're talking about it here. We call it "resurrection". Old core-memory
> > > > machines used to do this all the time.
> > >
> > > It will be interesting to see if we can do anything with this. This
> > > is very dangerous teritory to go into though. One mistake and you are
> likely
>
> > > to loose more than with exisiting systems.
> >
> > I would guess you are right. It's one of those weird "wouldn't it be nice"
> > type things.
> >
> > ron
>
> Dallas semiconductor makes 1-2 Megabyte static rams ( I think with batteries )
> for
>
> this. you can write transaction
> logs of whatever critical thing you're doing, and it's non volatile.
Which is where architecture comes in. You have to have the support
for the hardware that allows you to do this.
Eric