Re: Anyone with a long memory?

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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    On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 08:33:21PM -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
    > Some time ago, I remember reading about an older operating system - and
    > now I can't remember the name or where I found it. I believe I stumbled
    > onto it from a link when I was exploring the Hurd/Mach alternatives to
    > Linux. A key item was that at a some show, possibly Comdex, the booth
    > for this operating system was located near Novell's, and the reps would
    > take turns gleefully kicking the power cord of the socket, the plugging
    > it back in and having the system come back almost instantaneously -
    > since it saved its state continuously to disk. The Novell people were -
    > a trifle upset.
    >
    > Does anyone have any idea about what this operating system was/is or
    > have a link I can visit?
    >
    DOS? Or perhaps QNX? (QNX had a "live CD" distribution long before Knoppix). 

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