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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Computer uninterruptable power supply
Summary: Will the "Boomerang" work under UNIX?
Keywords: Boomerang,Uninterruptible
Message-ID: <16689@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 15:58:41 GMT
References: <1167@viscous> <6078@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <4003@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
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In article <4003@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> wte@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Bill Eason) writes:
=>There was a review in December or January's  (88/89) Byte magazine about a
=>product called "Boomerang", I believe.  It was a small battery and circuit
=>board which are mounted inside the PC between the power supply and the
=>??? (disk drive?).  It has a RAM-resident driver program which detects
=>power loss and stores memory, etc to the hard disk.

Has anyone written UNIX device driver for this product yet?  

Larry Dighera




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