25 Jun
2006
25 Jun
'06
9:27 p.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
Don Y wrote:
> Grrr... sorry, I should qualify this: I mean as it applies
> to "general purpose" computing (NOT to "appliances").
[snip]
And of course there's games consoles (the Xbox,
Xbox360 and Nintendo DS
do cryptographic checks on software before it's allowed to run), but
that's not really "general purpose computing".
Yes, that's why I added the "appliances" disclaimer :>
Most of those are "load once" applications. I'm curious
as to just how much overhead OS's are willing to expend
loading "typical" applications...