"Id like to see a system that more like a few gig and be part of the system ram, like a simm that you pop in and is electronicly re-programmable, but non-volitile. and hard drives that didnt come on unless you needed them.... and ofcourse dirt cheap so that everyone could have them!" -Jamie
This sounds a lot like CF on IDE... and although it is not generally part of system memory on IDE, you could make it a swap partition (yikes!) although you do want to be very careful about the lifetime write-cycle of CF and other NV storage. They are now relatively "dirt cheap" and the first thing you'd need is a CF-IDE adapter, which I think can be had for ~$20. Great for embedded systems, solid-state systems (ie, no moving parts), and the like... Are you thinking of something else? Like a hot-swappable non-volatile DIMM that works in existing systems (as if any but top-end servers do hot-swappable memory!) and somehow also acts as a drive? That'd be nice, heh. ciao, Ben On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:57:23 -0500 Linux Rocks ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:47 pm, Bob Miller wrote: | : Linux Rocks ! wrote: | : > I liked the commodore much better than the apple 2... neither were | : > all that great, but the commodore would boot w/out a disk, which | is: > a decent feature I wish carried over in the modern computing | world!: | : We have Linux boxes and distros that will boot from floppy, from | flash: memory (CompactFlash or USB), over Ethernet using PXE, or from | CD-ROM.: I think your wish has been granted. | | forgot about CF... that is an option... its still not as nice as rom | though... I think the commodore OS was about 25k, nowadays it would | have to be a few meg at least... Id like to see a system that more | like a few gig and be part of the system ram, like a simm that you pop | in and is electronicly re-programmable, but non-volitile. and hard | drives that didnt come on unless you needed them.... and ofcourse dirt | cheap so that everyone could have them! | | Jamie | | -- | Dijkstra probably hates me. | -- Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c | _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
