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Maybe in real mode DOS (though I doubt it), but not in Windows

Posted by Jofers, on Aug 17th, 2005

Windows (or any 32-bit OS, by design) gives each program a virtual memory space. Though my Dad used to have an old 300mhz laptop that could boot in 15 seconds by loading a saved state instead of 20. So sure, you could load your program's memory, and that's how a lot of games save, but you couldn't reboot a computer exactly like it was, nah.

Though there really isn't much benefit. You'd still have to load 200-some-odd megs off the hard drive, it'd still take quite a while to boot.

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