pure microshit

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:50:37PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> > into rom. To stay on topic, what (fpga) will Linux be running on by then ?
> 
> I don't see any smileys here, so I'm going to assume you're serious.
> If you are serious, you don't have a clue.  All of windows will
> never fit in rom, and even kernel.exe is a squeeze.

  OK, step into a time machine (gedanken experiment), and go back 10
years to 1993.  Tell computer-literate people about 512 megs or even 1
gig of *RAM* available on machines from the corner computer store.  And
if you really wanted a one-way ticket to the funny farm, tell them about
*VIDEO CARDS* with 128 megs of RAM.  Who says the ROM has to be just a
few hundred K ?

  Actually, Palladium (or whatever nom-du-jour MS has given it today)
only needs the hardware to checksum/check-signature of the boot-code
(roughly equivalant to vmlinuz in /boot).  The boot code would then
check the rest of the OS before loading it.  The OS would in turn check
all files (including programs) before loading them.

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