On Wednesday, Dec 4, 2002, at 04:58 Europe/London, J. S. Garrison wrote: > That's damned amazing. It's a very close bridge to placing a boot rom > into a > device which > will contain an entire O.S. so the machine will boot from a rom and > have basic > services available > using the hard disk as access to programs, not to O.S.
I always remember a news article on a BBC program once fortelling of the virtues of Solid State Media. This guy had a PC laptop with PCMCIA and booted it from an MS Windows Boot Card :). Another of the wonderful geniuses of foresight that was built into the Amiga 600 and 1200 (her I go again with the damn Amiga!) was a PCMCIA slot and a supplied 'PrepCard' App that allowed it to use a solid state PCMCIA RAM card, this has been fashioned over time to allow the use of Smart Media, CompactFLASH and the like as disk media, kinda useful on a machine with only an 880k floppy drive, although the very presence of PCMCIA means you could probably hang a LAN card on it if you got the right one! Back to the subject.... It's almost getting to producing a hybrid between PDA style RAM oriented systems and laptop hardware. -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Visit my Homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson> "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -The Matrix -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
