Subj : Re: Modern instant-on systems
To   : Daniel
From : MikeS
Date : Wed Apr 22 2020 02:01 pm

On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 4:15:02 AM UTC-4, Daniel wrote:
> Before saying anything, I want to point out that there is no pretense
> of expertise in this subject. I'm just a curious bean. As the growth
> of retro computing matures, projects to resurrect the platforms by
> building vice boxes gets more common. The C64-mini, the zx spectrum,
> sega.. Otherwise, the 8-bit guy is taking off-the-shelf components to
> build himself a modern juiced up Vic20 to sell at some point beyond
> vaporware. They're creating the basic interpreter and kernal for their
> system. All's well and good. This brought me to an interesting thought
> with a similar notion. What stops anyone from doing the same thing
> with a modern cpu and memory/bus system? Is it the complexity of the
> modern cpu? In retro systems, the developer controlled memory
> allocation such. I'd assume the difficult part would be to micromanage
> every bit of memory management on a complex system. Am I on the right
> track?
>
> I only ask these questions just to get a better understanding of it
> all. My daily laptop is a TRS-80 M200 laptop and, unlike any other
> system in the house, it's instant-on. It's ready to dance a moment
> after depressing the power button.
>
> It would be utterly BOSS if a modern system could be created in the
> same tact. Could someone enlighten me?
>
> ... Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world

No problem: just use sleep/suspend mode. That's equivalent to your T200, but you'll need a bigger battery to maintain a suspended multi-core CPU and a million times larger memory...

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