Itty Bitty Machines does it again.
I hope it can be produced economically in large capacities, a gigabyte or more, then it will be able to keep up with modern multicore processors and actually mean something.
Instant-booting a computer can’t happen until its peripherals know how to come up instantly in a known ready state, rather than taking several seconds to initialize and get in sync with the operating system.
This doesn't make sense to me. They're saying a "task" takes normal flash 1000 microseconds -- a millisecond.
But I have consumer USB flash drives that can read and write at tens of MB per second (that's a fraction of a microsecond per byte). And there are enterprise grade SATA SSD (solid-state drives) that will do hundreds of MB per second. That's continuous data rate, not burst.
So what is a "task" by IBM's definition? A write of a MB of data?
bflr
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IBM's OS/2 was far superior to Windows in design, flexibility, efficiency, reliability and security.
It still is.
Yet IBM executives had no spines to stand up to Gates and his media minions. Gerstner and his band of cowards surrendered and gave Windows the entire market (except for a few Mac and Linux devotees.)
I view this as analogous to the political situation today. With the exception of a few brave hearts, the Republicans have no spine to stand up to the Democrats like Obama, Schumer, Durbin, Pelosi, Reid and their media minions, all the while having a far superior platform.
So years later we are still suffering with insecure, bloated, clumsy Windows which we have to "upgrade" every few weeks to prevent the hackers from getting our data or worse.
And we're still suffering from massive debt and intrusive government foisted on us by 'craps and their media.
Great for implanting under foreheads and wrists.
So how long before the Chinese have it in production?