Posted on 09/28/2009 10:01:49 AM PDT by neverdem
Interesting! What ever happened to “bubble Memory?”
Does this mean I can turn my next computer on and use it right away?
Does this mean my phone that takes 40 seconds to boot will be usable right away just like the first cell phone I had years ago?
So how fast can it bring up a now 21.5GB folder full of music?
Why didn’t I think of this?
Sure, it seems obvious now.
I would like a 1EB sized backup drive using this technology.
Yeah, I mean Exo-bytes!
1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes
1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes
1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes
1PB = 1,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes
1EB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes
Plenty of storage for anyone!
Flash RAM was a total blessing for so many applications/products that came to be a reality. Perhaps once they perfect the processing techniques for PCM to operate equal to silicon based transistors at WCS/WCF (worst case slow worse case fast) specs we shall see a shift away from silicon based technologies where it can apply, ex. cost effectiveness and reliability.
I don't know about you but Bill Gates and I have never needed any more than 640K . . .
Ha. I remember when my maintenance office was running a bunch 286 PCs networked to a Northgate 386 file-server.
During that time my M-I-L bought a Packard-Bell 386 from Montgomery Wards - with better specs than the Northgate we were running.
Impressed, I told her “wow - this is the last PC you will ever need”.
It would seem that the write speed might be a lot lower than the read time in PCM . . .
Pretty cool. I’m not even worried about the speed, since it would be simple to do massively parallel writes to overcome the slowness of individual operations.
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In theory, yes. In reality, by the time these reach the consumer market, Windows 15 will be the most common operating system, requiring 1.21 petabytes of memory (2.0 petabytes recommended), so Windows will STILL take 40 seconds to boot.
But Newegg is getting ready to deliver whatever they come up with:
Newegg finally goes public, with financial analysts expecting big things
That's my Razr phone! The laptop on the dang network at work takes about 4 minutes.
My first Win 95 machine took about 45 seconds.
That was commercialized (and, wow, btw) to some extent in the 1970s and early 1980s. I remember a bubble memory expansion card for the Apple II, basically the same advantage (the zeroes and ones stayed put when power went off), but wound up a niche product for demanding environments, usually industrial ones. The dynamic RAM density started climbing, prices fell like crazy, and bubble memory pretty much vanished.
Thanks Ernest and neverdem.
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