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Re: A computer that you never have to boot?

* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:

>> In the not-too-distnt-future you may never need boot your computer agin.
>> Sure, you'll still turn it off and on when you like, but if HP has its way,
>> the computer will remember exactly where it was and return there instantly
>> when the power is switched back on.
>>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN3055073520080430.
>
> This assumes your computer/system is properly built and doesn't leak memory.
>
> Much of this can already be done a little more slowly by restoring RAM from
> media that's not volatile.

I'd like to know what happens if your computer wakes up in a new Network
Neighborhood (shades of Mr. Rogers!), and with different equipment now
plugged into it.

-- 
Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid
for. So yes.  -- Bill Gates, On his use of YouTube to watch videos. "Bill Gates
on ...the Competition" in The Wall Street Journal (19 June 2006); also quoted
in "Bill Gates' piracy confession" at ComputerWorld.com

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