On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:32:22 -0500 (EST), mcb, inc. wrote: >On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote: > >> Let me give you an engineering opinion: bwahahahahahaha this is retarded. > >A lesson from history for those who fail to learn from it. >Rebooting from the latent image in core memory after months or >even years without power was not particularly remarkable. A >little hunting should turn up some nice war stories such as the >pdp-10 that was halted running diags in Marlboro, MA, crated, >loaded in a truck, moved across country, installed, cabled and >when powered up, resumed running the diags from the halt point. >Different technology, different era (and a *real* computer) but >the lesson is: know your technology's behavior at the edges....
Yeah, but core is not volatile. Rod (who was hired by IBM in early 60's when there was lots of core about) Rod/ A consultant is someone who's called in when someone has painted himself into a corner. He's expected to levitate his client out of that corner. -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984.
