Re: Recoverable RAM Disk

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 12:24:23 EST

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> The only tricky bit is that I don't know if a warm boot on a PC wipes ram
> or not...

Normally it does, but in the old days, you could - in DOS DEBUG or somewhere
set 0040:0072 to a given value and then jmp f000:fff0.

IIRC, the value in 0040:0072 was these:

0x0000: cold reboot
0x1234: warm reboot
0x5678: warm reboot without memory clear

hæpp

roy

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