Now that a few major old and new OSs are available for the PC (e.g., dos, windows 8x, windows xt, linux, Os2, - -) I find myself morning the choice of having to give up several wonderful tools ported to operating system A, but not to OS B, etc.
This got me wondering if it is possible to switch between different OSs, as quickly and easily as one switches from one program or task to another, using a windows desktop. As of now, switching to another OS usually involves a laborious and relatively time consuming rebooting of the PC. The factors preventing fast OS switching that I can immediately think of is: a) different file systems and binaries b) different kernals in memory. There is not too much that can be done about a, but I wonder if some kind of flash ROM could be included in a PC that contained all the things that had to be in RAM for an OS shell to talk to the PCs devices? If so, could not one simply and quickly dump, for instance the contents of flash memory holding Linux, to your ram and start using linux? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
