As an old fellow who helped with the birth of personal computers, I remember that the operating system and software on computers was always written into ROM. As Microsoft windows started to get a hold on the system software this idea of having the operating system in ROM disappeared, that is except for the DOS software.
Modern Microsoft software driven computers take an extraordinary amount of time to load up the operating software from the hard drives (7 is much much faster!). This startup delay could be vastly reduced if the operating software was written into EEPROM and only updated when an operating software update was issued.
So, does anyone know a good reason why the operating system is no longer made semi permanent by installing it in EEPROM instead of the hard drive?
Regards to all,
Modern Microsoft software driven computers take an extraordinary amount of time to load up the operating software from the hard drives (7 is much much faster!). This startup delay could be vastly reduced if the operating software was written into EEPROM and only updated when an operating software update was issued.
So, does anyone know a good reason why the operating system is no longer made semi permanent by installing it in EEPROM instead of the hard drive?
Regards to all,