Posted on 05/01/2008 1:07:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Oh goody. Wait till that gets infected. how would one get ‘under’ the boot process to clean it up?
I think the more likely usage will be for laptop standby modes, or the replacement of hard drives with solid state memristor memory (which I think they say is as fast as DRAM with similar densities). Vista already has an option to standby to flash for laptops properly equipped. If the new memory is solid-state, and faster than flash, then expect a new incompatible form of SD and CF memory for digital cameras and MP3 players too.
I didn’t read that the speeds were equivalent. If they’ve spent 40 years on this, I doubt they will be as cheap to mass produce as DRAM is now.
The stand-by mode is an interesting application for this. The issue of size-to-storage will be everything for this product. If these are smaller per storage capacity than traditional DRAM, then they’ll be used. If they are larger, I cannot see them being used for the simple reason that you’d be better off just having actual Memory which could be used for the OS and all Applications.
To me, this device would have to completely replace the use of page file quota. If the Page File exists in conjuction with this device, then I really do not see how these could be justfied for use on any client. If they can replace the OS’s pagefile, then I can see the reboot benefit. However, the MB and OS would have to be modified to successfully use these.
That said, if these can replace your pagefile with DRAM (or even half DRAM) speed, I’d want one too. Eliminating those IO hits would be great.
You’re all missing the point.
This discovery is a fourth fundamental type of passive device: resistor, capacitor, inductor, memristor. Trivializing this achievement by reducing it down to something as inane as saying “you’ll be able to boot your computer faster” makes a mockery of the magnitude of the discovery. It’s as stupid as saying the result of the invention of gigahertz radio frequency generators will allow you to cook your hot dogs faster...
Read a good description (like the one in EE Times — the industry rag read by most Electrical Engineers) where they’re saying that electronics textbooks will have to be rewritten to accomodate this knowledge — it’s that significant.
Or not. My old ca 1971 auto battery charger with its selenium rectifiers still works...
Only Windows needs the reboot more often.
Indeed. It took Microsoft to convince people that it was normal to reboot computers regularly.
Here's the uptime of a few of the boxes I support.
wat10 up 172 days
wat11 up 198 days
wat12 up 198 days
wat13 up 318 days
wat14 up 318 days
sat01 up 172 days
sat02 up 172 days
w3t03 up 198 days
w3t04 up 198 days
w3s01 up 286 days
w3s02 up 286 days
was01 up 196 days
was02 up 171 days
was03 up 264 days
was04 up 285 days
was05 up 285 days
My personal desktop gets rebooted more often, but that's only because I run bleeding edge kernels, and you have to reboot for kernel changes.
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