Re: Future Linux on Bistable Storage
From: david
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 13:02:12 EST
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Rick van Rein wrote:
Hello,
Future generations of Linux are likely to run on machines with non-volatile
memories based on bistable technologies. This will save the energy of DRAM
refresh cycles and avoid the mechanical problems related to hard disks. The
result is probably a computer with no distinction between disk and RAM.
unless there has been a breakthrough that I haven't heard about (always
possible) I seriously doubt that this is the case.
the alternate technologies that I have heard about are either _far_ less
dense then DRAM (similar to static ram) or require erasing in blocks
(similar to flash). niether one is appropriate for a large, flat
addressed memory architecture as you list below.
David Lang
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