Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 
> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
> 
> > Well maybe the terminology has changed. when I went to school. A
> > computer that was turned on for the first time during the day, the
> > computer was starting from a "Cold Boot". A "restart" was when the
> > computer was already actively runing and you pressed a key
> > combination, or from a Menu choice. The power wasn't turned off at any
> > time (during the restart.)
> 
> The differences between whether the OS is restarted from a "cold boot"
> or a "restart" are pretty much irrelevant. The point is the OS is
> rebooted, or to use another term here, reloaded. What was of the OS
> before is now gone. Nothing survives and the OS, memory layout and all
> applications are reloaded. That's not a big trick and has the effect of
> removing many problems that can only be exhibited if one does not
> reboot, restart or otherwise reload the OS. Things like memory likes and
> other corruptions can occur with badly written software.

Under CP/M, where there was no memory protection, a cold boot
reloaded everything, including the bios.  A warm boot reloaded
everything EXCEPT the bios.  Either took about 2 seconds, maybe 5
if the file system was big.  All hail the progress made since.

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