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Eric - seven eleven
Back in 1993, I thought the OS would be instant on by now, booting from ROM. Finally getting there on speed. http://thenextweb.com/microso...
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July 8
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My very first computer in 1984 was instant-on. Now the best we've got is instant wake-up.
- Victor Ganata
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There was a computer back in 1993 that could do it. HP made the Omnibook that was small, had a pop-out mouse (no trackpads back then) and booted Windows 3.1 from ROM and also held Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0. It was FAST. I never saw that design again. I thought it would become commonplace. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det...
- Eric - seven eleven
Having to buy new hardware every time you needed a software update would be pretty rough, though.
- Victor Ganata
Back then applications just didn't get updated that often. Software patches weren't common. But point taken, fairly inflexible.
- Eric - seven eleven
Heh, there were a lot of famous—and sometimes quite destructive—bugs on the Commodore 64 and in CBM DOS (which was also on ROM) that would've been fairly trivial to fix if you could just download an update and patch. If only NAND-based flash were as fast as DRAM….
- Victor Ganata
Oh yeah, there were bugs, they just usually required a new purchase to fix. I remember when MS said they would distribute updates quarterly for Windows 95/4.0 on CD-ROM. That never materialized.
- Eric - seven eleven