Keefe
08-27-2001, 02:03 PM
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.
Read the full article here. (http://www.gensw.com/pages/news/quikboot.htm)
Read the full article here. (http://www.gensw.com/pages/news/quikboot.htm)