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Apparatus and process for a starting a data processing installation

US6990575B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Gerd Bautz · Bergkamen, DE
Juergen Moschner · Dortmund, DE
Guy Coen · Aalst, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 11, 2001
Grant date	Jan 24, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 19, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/4401
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A process for starting a data processing installation, and associated components, wherein program commands of a bootstrap program are stored in a bootstrap memory unit and, when executing the bootstrap program, a processor controls the transfer of program commands from a reload memory unit to a main memory unit and, after the transfer operation, execution of the program commands stored in the main memory unit during the transfer operation is started, the bootstrap memory unit and/or the reload memory unit being serial-access memory units which are less expensive than memory units used previously.

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