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- From: steimann@quando.quantum.de (Ulrich Steimann)
- Subject: Power Fail (Was: Re: Saving machine state)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.173154.1070@quando.quantum.de>
- Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
- References: <1992Nov16.154958.9682@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.145020.15260@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov20.103654.1862@tac.fi>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:31:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.103654.1862@tac.fi> tiok_sr@tac.fi (Seppo Routimo) writes:
- >> Does anyone know of a method to save the state of a PC
- >> [...] so that, later, I can reload
- >> and things behave as if no interruption occurred.
- >
- >There is an add-on card which does something like that. During a power
- >loss it saves the state of the computer to its battery, when power
- >returns it restores the situation. I don't remember the name of it nor
- >the price, haven't seen the ad lately. Then again you may mean some
- >sort of a task-switcher.
-
- Oh, why don't you use a TSR which constantly fills the unused memory
- with '1's?
- In case of a power fail you could read this memory and put the energy
- of 1MByte of '1's in the power-supply to do a panic-backup :-)
-
- Remember: the more free memory you have, the longer the machine
- will work without additional energy!
-
- Bye,
- UST
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