On Jan 17, Andrew Brown wrote
> >Just out of interest, is the i386 the only machine that trashes memory
> >on a reset, and thus has this problem?  Or is this another off the wall
> >question from Simon before the first coffee of that day?
> 
> actually it doesn't.  at least...not every time.

This depends on your BIOS. I have one machine which behaves this way,
but for all others the BIOS fills in memory with 0's even for a warm boot.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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