Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret) (Link Only per copyright)

Wired | Mar 22, 2017 | By Cade Metz

[Swordmaker]

Summary: Intel is introducing a new type of memory it claims is 1000 times faster than previous Flash memory and can store 10 times more data than DRAM. Its newly released product is five times faster than current SSDs. Called 3D XPoint, pronounced "Three D Cross Drive," intel claims its new memory is "truly transformational" for the entire computer industry.

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Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret)

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[zeugma]

I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...

You lucky bastard. I once had to boot a DEC 8810 running Ultrix off 8" floppies. Ugh.

[dayglored]

> You lucky bastard. I once had to boot a DEC 8810 running Ultrix off 8" floppies. Ugh.

Wow. Ultrix on floppies. I didn't know that was possible.

Back around 1982 I had a Tektronix 8550 MSD (microprocessor dev system) that consisted of two units: an 8301 with the uP emulators/debugger electronics, and an 8501 dual-floppy storage box. The latter was based on a DEC LSI-11/23 (a small PDP-11 on a board). Usually you booted it to the MDS software, but the Tek FAE bootlegged me a copy of DEC RT/11 for the LSI/11-23. That was my first experience with DEC stuff since the PDP-8E that launched me into small computers in 1974...

Anyway, the RT diskette booted real RT-11 with high-falutin programs like PIP (remember PIP?).

But he also scammed a copy of ADVEN -- Colossal Cave Adventure ("Adventure"), all text based of course... "YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING..."

Ah, those were the days... :-)

[dayglored]

D-uh... I forgot the point of that digression -- those LSI-11/23 RT-11 floppies were all 8", dual-sided, double density. A big deal in those days...

And I can't type -- it's "MDS", not "MSD".

[Swordmaker]

And I can't type -- it's "MDS", not "MSD".

Welcome to my boat. . . grab an oar and start paddling.

[generally]

I think all but 2 of the 10” disks were in my boss’s filing cabinet. He required me to sign my life away to get possession of the 2. I was the only person in the company who knew how to use the computer that they worked on, but I couldn’t pry more than 2 of them out of him.

[dfwgator]

Getting your pr0n faster.

[dfwgator]

> Kill troll with sword

[dayglored]

> > Kill troll with sword

And the ever-popular:

kill dragon

WITH WHAT?  YOUR BARE HANDS?  

yes

CONGRATULATIONS!  YOU HAVE JUST VANQUISHED A DRAGON
WITH YOUR BARE HANDS!  (UNBELIEVABLE, ISN'T IT?)  

Not to mention "XYZZY".