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Who knows maybe LENOVO will upstage Bill Gates and MS by coming out
with a new PC that has its OS entirely in a programmable ROM chip.
You know the drop in and latch type. After that the anti-virus
software systems will go broke. They might call it Windows XS
(windows extra strong). Then all one would need to so when
an upgrade is done would be to unlatch the old one, drop in the
new one and relatch it and voila the upgrade is completed and
your ready to go. Since no virus can write itself into your
system with its system in ROM wow what a dream I am haveing.
Kokomo Joe


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Joseph Fenn wrote:

> Who knows maybe LENOVO will upstage Bill Gates and MS by coming out
> with a new PC that has its OS entirely in a programmable ROM chip.
> You know the drop in and latch type. After that the anti-virus
> software systems will go broke. They might call it Windows XS
> (windows extra strong). Then all one would need to so when
> an upgrade is done would be to unlatch the old one, drop in the
> new one and relatch it and voila the upgrade is completed and
> your ready to go. Since no virus can write itself into your
> system with its system in ROM wow what a dream I am haveing.

If you simply deny the user account write access to the system area and
never execute untested files from a privileged account you end up with
pretty much the same benefit, plus it makes upgrading a lot simpler--you
just download and install.

As for upgrades, you'd have to buy a new chip for every bug-fix release,
which would make The Bill happy but not the rest of us.

> Kokomo Joe
>
>
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> * Army MARS PRECEDED by AARS (Army Amateur Radio System) *
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On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, J. Clarke wrote:

> Joseph Fenn wrote:
>
>> Who knows maybe LENOVO will upstage Bill Gates and MS by coming out
>> with a new PC that has its OS entirely in a programmable ROM chip.
>> You know the drop in and latch type. After that the anti-virus
>> software systems will go broke. They might call it Windows XS
>> (windows extra strong). Then all one would need to so when
>> an upgrade is done would be to unlatch the old one, drop in the
>> new one and relatch it and voila the upgrade is completed and
>> your ready to go. Since no virus can write itself into your
>> system with its system in ROM wow what a dream I am haveing.
>
> If you simply deny the user account write access to the system area and
> never execute untested files from a privileged account you end up with
> pretty much the same benefit, plus it makes upgrading a lot simpler--you
> just download and install.
>
> As for upgrades, you'd have to buy a new chip for every bug-fix release,
> which would make The Bill happy but not the rest of us.
>
>> Kokomo Joe

Well dont know about that. Price of MS software is probably
very near the cost of the update chip might be. Or perhaps the
Chinese could make something similar to the infamous windows
like linux or unix did and call it "tingchou XS"
Kokomo Joe

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Joseph Fenn wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> Joseph Fenn wrote:
>>
>>> Who knows maybe LENOVO will upstage Bill Gates and MS by coming out
>>> with a new PC that has its OS entirely in a programmable ROM chip.
>>> You know the drop in and latch type. After that the anti-virus
>>> software systems will go broke. They might call it Windows XS
>>> (windows extra strong). Then all one would need to so when
>>> an upgrade is done would be to unlatch the old one, drop in the
>>> new one and relatch it and voila the upgrade is completed and
>>> your ready to go. Since no virus can write itself into your
>>> system with its system in ROM wow what a dream I am haveing.
>>
>> If you simply deny the user account write access to the system area and
>> never execute untested files from a privileged account you end up with
>> pretty much the same benefit, plus it makes upgrading a lot simpler--you
>> just download and install.
>>
>> As for upgrades, you'd have to buy a new chip for every bug-fix release,
>> which would make The Bill happy but not the rest of us.
>>
>>> Kokomo Joe
>
> Well dont know about that. Price of MS software is probably
> very near the cost of the update chip might be. Or perhaps the
> Chinese could make something similar to the infamous windows
> like linux or unix did and call it "tingchou XS"

While there is a charge to go from, say, Windows 2000 to Windows XP, there
is no charge to go from Windows 2000 to SP1 to SP2 to SP3 to SP4, however
if the OS was burned into a chip then that would be four chip replacements.

Further, you'd still pay the price of the OS upgrade, but the price of the
chip would be added on top of that.

> Kokomo Joe

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