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by Stuart Langridge.
Original Post: Putting the OS in ROM
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A few days ago I noted that an Acorn Electron booted from ROM which was fast, and that someone seemed to have rediscovered the technique. Is there any reason why someone couldn’t build a computer with Linux in ROM rather than on disc, so it booted really really quickly? You’d need some kind of flash [...]