[Ti] Intel cuts PC boot time

[Dr Trevor J. Hutley]

On 19 Oct 2005, at 07:16, Timothy Luoma wrote:

> Intel is showing off a future technology called Robson that could  
> cut that annoying boot-up time.
>
> With Robson, a PC pulls data and applications off an add-in flash  
> memory card

Boot time is almost no issue for me with a Powerbook, as I only ever  
put it to sleep, and it wakes within 1 second.

When the MacOS was 'small', we could do this with RAM disks, and it  
was faster.   Although boot times were shorter then anyway.

I see no reason why we could not boot from flash memory, the same as  
this Intel proposal, if we had a flash memory format that was in a  
bootable 'position'.

Can we boot from a USB flash drive (if we had one large enough)?

Or do we need flash memory in a PC-card device, although I am not  
even sure if that is a bootable device.

Has anyone on the List ever done this/got the technology?

I boot from FW800 hard disks (TechTool eDisk) but that is all I have  
ever done.

regards,  Trevor