Re: more on saving during power out

JCrowe wrote:
> ZnU wrote:
>> In article 
>> <52471315-88a6-4dcf-9a97-f03122e1bb91@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  -hh <recscuba_google@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> Steve de Mena <st...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> weedhopper wrote:
>>>>> This can currently be installed on Windows Xp machines."
>>>>> The software is currently Beta only.
>>>>> Sorry again, I hope this clears up any misconceptions I may have 
>>>>> given you. I am not a computer techie.  I only use them.
>>>> Sorry, don't buy any of this...
>>> Of course not; its reminiscent of the guys one meets who believed 
>>> that his 7.62mm M60 machine gun could penetrate a foot of T72 tank 
>>> armor. They're the same kind of Rocket Scientists who haven't heard 
>>> of Vista sometime in the past 6 years and are supposedly writing ... 
>>> Beta ... software for ... XP.  Yup, they're following the Windows 
>>> mantra that if you don't succeed in the first ten years, keep banging 
>>> your head against the wall  :-)
>>
>> Mind you, there are operating systems which can maintain state and 
>> pick up right where they left off even after an unexpected power 
>> outage, and which extend this protection to all running processes 
>> automatically.
>>
>> In research labs.
>>
>> The notion that this could be retrofitted onto Windows is pure
nonsense.
>>
> 
>    We had a computer that had internal batteries which would save
> state and restart to the same state during power outages...lots of
> truly fault-tolerant computers did this..not in labs but common in the
> telco industry. But in a PC class machine running Windows....not likely.

If there are batteries then there is no power outage.

Steve