ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) (01/04/91)
Just a small suggestion for future Amiga hardware revisions. Would it be possible to provide a small CMOS RAM storage area (around 8K) battery backed up so that it survives power-down. This RAM should *not* be part of the CPU's addressing space, but accessed indirectly (for obvious reasons). This hardware should not be a problem, as 8K CMOS SRAMS are not expensive, and the clock battery is already there. The reason I suggest such an addition is that it would make an excellent place to store small setup and environment variables that must survive powerdown (eg. do not boot from df0:, RSA encrypted passwords if security is ever implemented under AmigaOS). As the memory is not directly addressable, and that any code stored there must be bootstrapped by external code, this does not impose a virus risk. -- Ian Farquhar Phone : 61 2 805-9400 Office of Computing Services Fax : 61 2 805-7433 Macquarie University NSW 2109 Also : 61 2 805-7420 Australia EMail : ifarqhar@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au