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To: Scumbria who wrote (47341)1/25/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571636
 
Scumbria, It all depends on how closely they integrate it to the CPU. Take a few extra moments and it can be loaded from an external chips to some shadow memory. Dallas labs makes such a chip.
After startup it will run transparently enough.
Will that satisfy the software writers?, perhaps not but it would work.

Bill