A reciprocating saw is provided which includes a drive shaft having a saw blade clamping means at an end thereof for securing a saw blade thereto in use, and drive means for driving reciprocation of the drive shaft and thus an attached saw blade relative to a body portion of the saw in use. The remote boot apparatus is constructed as an embedded interface in the computer. At least one cell in each row is a nodal cell. In response to the comparison resulting in a determination that the event has occurred, the wake-and-go engine issues a load command on the system bus to read the data value from the target address with data exclusivity.