...that's what I thought you meant. Well, you can have that today! Just put in the IDE-CF adapter, and the "special" magical mystery memory is a CF that you boot from. It is "programmable" as you call it, meaning you can write a new OS to it, and it is nonvolatile. The problem with using a DIMM socket for this, as I see it, is that today's motherboards (and yesterday's) are created to handle RAM and drives, but not either on the other's interface! So, to do this you put CF on the *IDE* interface, and RAM on the *memory* interface. Can anyone speak at greater length about this? Is it the North bridge? (The south bridge handles PCI, right? or does it also do the IDE?)
ciao, Ben On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:33:29 -0500 Linux Rocks ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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 _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
