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Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret) (Link Only per copyright)
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| Mar 22, 2017
| By Cade Metz
Posted on 03/22/2017 2:18:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: dayglored; ThunderSleeps; ShadowAce; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; ...
Intel introduces "3D XPoint Memory" which they claim is 1000 times faster than Flash memory and can hold 10 times more data than DRAM. Their first product on the market is five times faster than the current crop of SSDs. Intel claims this memory will be "truly transformational" for the computer industry. Link only to a Wired article on this new memory and its potential. PING! Pinging dayglored, ThunderSleeps, and ShadowAce for their interest and Ping Lists
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:24:04 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
Ad blocked me so i had to exit.
sad that apple has to rely on INTEL products.
What happened top those guys?
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:25:52 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: Swordmaker
Intel is on a mission to change the world...again.
And it’s not just XPoint.
VR, Robot cars and FPGAs. Lots of stuff.
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:38:12 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Swordmaker
So I can get rid of my floppy disks?
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:47:04 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
To: mowowie
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:49:02 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: outofsalt
So I can get rid of my floppy disks? It depends. Are they 10", 8 ¼", or the 3 ½" floppies?
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:49:05 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: mowowie
sad that apple has to rely on INTEL products. Only for their Mac lineup and some are saying Apple may put their own A11 processors in their lower end iMacs and MacBooks. It's perfectly possible to do. They've had macOS Sierra versions running on A10X processors for some time. . .
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:52:36 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:53:36 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
To: Swordmaker; outofsalt
>
It depends. Are they 10", 8 ¼", or the 3 ½" floppies? Didn't you mean: Are they 8", 5¼", or 3½" floppies?
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:53:42 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: outofsalt
Yeah, but only the 5 inchers. Keep the
3 1/2 inchers 8 more years.
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posted on
03/22/2017 2:55:36 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
(In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
To: mowowie
To which guys? Apple has always used Intel memory
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posted on
03/22/2017 3:12:16 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Swordmaker
To: dayglored
When the MIS department which I’m a part of started a mass cleanup and purge last year, the boss found a couple of what looked like 10” floppies still in the cardboard.
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posted on
03/22/2017 3:54:06 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: dayglored
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models... When I worked in some IT groups a couple decades ago, we were still using equipment with 8 inch floppies. Old equipment from the 1970s, but government was still using it into the 1990s.
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posted on
03/22/2017 4:01:43 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: roadcat; wally_bert
In 1979 or so, I purchased a Shugart floppy drive for 8" diskettes, for about $400. I designed and wire-wrapped the interface adapter electronics, and wrote the software drivers (for my home brew operating system). A few years later I did the same thing with a pair of 5-1/4" drives. I found I liked the 5-1/4" drives better; the 8" models were clunky by comparison.
If there were 10" or 8-1/4" drives or diskettes, I never saw them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:08:14 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models... I was having a brain fart for the 8" size. . . but there were 10" floppies for a while. They had a clamp down transport that was sort of reminiscent of a record player with a lid. There weren't too many of them around. The dentist I work for did some for had an old computer that used them to load the system on the computer. He kept the system disks in an old 78 RPM record album. He had to reload the system about every two weeks or so or every time there was a power failure. My recollection was they were 128K and IIRC the system was THEOS. I don't even remember the name of the computer which had a built in keyboard and an eight or nine inch green screen monitor, also built in. The OS and data was later moved to a PC using yes, 5 ¼" disks. The 5MG HD platter on that old system was about 20" in diameter and was housed in a separate cabinet. . . and had to be driven to San Francisco to be defragged by the manufacturer about every three months or so.
The last time I ever saw any 10" floppies was a box of five of them were for sale for one dollar at an electronic surplus store called HSC in Sacramento. They had a main store down in Sunnyvale.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:15:19 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: wally_bert
When the MIS department which Im a part of started a mass cleanup and purge last year, the boss found a couple of what looked like 10 floppies still in the cardboard. Yup. . . they're rarer than hen's teeth. Only thing rarer are the transports to read and write them.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:17:17 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
The leader had been there over 20 years and he couldn’t remember them ever being used or the hardware that ran them.
He figured they belonged to his predecessor and some long dead system.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:22:09 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Swordmaker
They need to revamp memory just to keep up with all the OS updates.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:26:26 PM PDT
by
Mashood
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