What I was thinking was something like a simm(dimm... whatever) that you pop in where you would normally have simm/dimms (say you have 3 slots, put one that is the operating system, the other 2 are primary storage as usual) The one simm would be nonvolitle ram so it doesnt go away on power cycle. It wold ofcourse want to be programmable so you can upgrade the OS. really a simple concept...
Jamie On Monday 17 November 2003 03:04 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: : "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 -- Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds, announcing Linux v2.0 _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
