From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 13:09:06 MST
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, spike66 wrote:
> I dont see why not. I have a Palm Pilot, it has an operating system,
> seldom crashes and doesn't need to be booted up, or if so it does it
> so quickly one doesn't even notice. Perhaps the breakthru we need is
> solid state memory? spike
Nonvolatile memory (say, FRAM, or MRAM) would do little to make current
Wintel PCs more stable. You would still have to reboot periodically (to
keep the system minty-fresh, or to avoid occasional BSOD), but you could
at least shut them down within seconds, and boot them up almost as quickly
(ignoring dumb peripherals, which don't remember state, but this can be
adressed).
I have two main machines at home, one server, one client/X terminal. Apart
from long-running crunch jobs, I don't have need for massive Flops, so I'd
be happy for a low-power low-noise always-on machine. Eden with a 2.5"
drive or a solid state drive would do plenty.
I wouldn't mind having a relatively noisy (though it tends to disrupt
productivity), high performance box for client/X terminal, as long as I
could send it to sleep and wake it up without losing state within seconds.
But ideally we need deadly quiet, liquid cooled fully solid state
machines, yes. We'll be getting them eventually, as power dissipation
fluxes go to high to get rid with conventional heat sinks.
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