General Software has announced the fastest BIOS boot time on record. The
embedded system was clocked at 0.8 seconds from system power-on
to transfer of control to LILO. This
was on an Intel SOYO motherboard (440BX chipset) running a PIII
400. I think the quote of the article is:
'This Embedded BIOS quick-boot operation allows the device to
restart and resume operations well
within three seconds -- the maximum amount of downtime allowed
per year for a device that must
support "seven nines" or 99.99999 percent uptime.'
Sorry for the formatting.
Note it is "bios boot time" not "boot time". I think we're lots faster
than 800 milliseconds!
ron
