A system and method for compressing portions of the operating system in a ROM image and for executing the system from the compressed image. Compression is used to reduce the size of the ROM image to reduce component cost. Low use segments are compressed. The operating system is initialized into a virtual...http://www.google.fr/patents/US5940871?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US5940871 - Computer system and method for selectively decompressing operating system ROM image code using a page fault
Computer system and method for selectively decompressing operating system ...