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| L International Announces Instant-On Technology L International says it will roll out all of its laptop, desktop and Workstation computers systems configured with PuRAM Drives with Instant-On Technology spelling the end of booting and re-booting tasks in mainstream computing. The time-consuming and usually annoying task of restarting the operating system of a computer every time it is shut down or rebooted is gone for good as L hardware products premiere being the world's first to utilize of Instant-On Technology. With Instant-On computers can turn on and load a full Windows session in less than one second and in some cases as fast as 1/8th of a second. Instant-On takes advantage of no latency/ extremely high- I/Os request performance of nonvolatile and non-mechanical PuRAM Solid State Drives and recent advances in both high-bandwidth hardware architectures and memory technologies, by utilizing several variants of WinXP4L and upcoming Vista4L 64bit editions and enhancements. By caching in real-time at shutdown all of Windows active drivers and boot-up files into a temporary image partition, Instant-On allows computers to reboot from a successfully pre-boot "snapshot" in the very same manner that a PDA or a PocketPC device can wake-up from an Off state. Equally, a reset option allows for a full "standard" system boot-up, often obligatory when new applications or hardware are recently installed or modified, requiring a first time registration of drivers and mandatory system files. Finally, a complete Hardware shutdown, similar to what a hard reset is on a PDA device, allows for a complete hardware memory resident digital imprints, in cases like a BIOS update or major hardware change occurs. Instant-On technology blends ultra-high performance memory, disk components and code. All these elements are tuned together for ultimate performance in the long-due overhauling of booting, re-booting and shutdown operations in personal computers. With Instant-On technology both Windows startup and shutdown procedures are streamlined by eliminating all non-mandatory procedures (many of them only necessary on systems booting from a standard spinning hard drive). In fact the entire Instant-On startup and shutdown procedures take into consideration every operation that can be optimized for performance with PuRAM system drives. Only the necessary drivers and system configuration data are loaded. Furthermore the way that the Operating System "talks" to the system drive has been largely enhanced to fully take advantage of the most optimum PuRAM data communication patterns. Immediately after a successful BIOS post you'll have to remind yourself not to blink, or you'll miss the scrolling "loading Windows" splash screen as your Windows sessions instantly jump at you. All display re-draws and caching of desktop icons, directories and folders also occur instantly at a Windows session startup. L once again proves that its extensive optimization code and enhancements for extreme computing performance are years ahead of their time on every front of personal and business computing. Allied with L's RamDISK engine, standard on all L computers, and a collection of hundreds of system performance software modifications that make Instant-On Technology a reality, L's PuRAM drives are not used solely as a storage device, but creatively exercised as a fully integrated peripheral whose attributes and qualities are woven into the fabric of our performance tuned mobile desktop replacements and desktop super computers. Instant-On Technology was originally written for L OS, L's upcoming Linux based 64-bit Operating System. Built from the ground-up with the utmost performance and transparent usability in mind, L OS will be the first Operating System to natively take advantage of new high-bandwidth hardware and Artificial Intelligence software/ hardware interfaces, System Solid State Drives and Bi-Directional Multi-thread Ram Drives while featuring a full 64-bit emulation engine for everyone's favorite MS Windows Applications. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |