Re: WarmBoot on ALT-CTRL-DEL {Re: The smallest TSR contest}

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From: John D. Zitterkopf
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 04:39

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In article <1992Sep3.022806.4536@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> tswingle@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tom Swingle) writes:
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>Are you using VSHIELD on your computer?  VSHIELD forces a cold boot on Control-
>Alt-Delete, unless you run it with the /NB parameter.  Viruses stand a lesser
>chance of surviving a cold boot than a warm boot, although it might still be
>possible; I don't know for sure.
	Yep, That would do it. I figured after reading some previous posts that
It had to be either VSHIELD or PC-CACHE. I guess I should have known...
	I wonder, why wouldn't a cache intercept the "warm-boot", Flush the
write-back buffer and then proceed with the warm-boot. Next, I also hope that 
the "great" makers of the 486dx cachers somehow made sure that the buffer
was flushed by the warm boot. Seems like a power loss would be possible with
hardware to flush... 

Just the ramblings of an Electrical Engineering Student...
John

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