Re: Norma; 'boot sequence' for a CPU?

From: Glenn Gundlach (stratus46_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: 30 Oct 2004 11:09:02 -0700

Roger Johansson <no-email@home.se> wrote in message news:<Xns95923D6E2A91C86336@130.133.1.4>...
> stratus46@yahoo.com (Glenn Gundlach) wrote:
>
> > You say that 'static RAM' would be OK and that is just
> > not the case. Static RAM is only static as long as the power is on.
> > Obviously a battery backed static RAM (non volatile RAM) could work.
> > From a powered off condition, the RAM contents is random garbage and
> > is useless as code.
>
> If you read the latest messages in the newsgroup before you post you
> can save yourself, and others, a lot of unnecessary work.
> Somebody may have already answered your question already.

Sir, I didn't HAVE a question. I was respoding to your assertion that
the processor began running from RAM at address zero.

gg

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