From: gdmr at inf.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
Subject: [COFF] non-volatile main memory (NVMM)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:54:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202002201154.01KBsCSb013194@maysl7.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
Seen on one of our local "seminars" lists recently...
> Emerging hardware, such as non-volatile main memory (NVMM) [...]
> changes the way system software should be designed and implemented,
> because they are not just an enhanced version of existing devices,
> but provide new qualitative features and software interfaces.
Core store, mutter, mutter.
We used to regularly restart machines which had been turned off for a
while, and they would happily pick up where they left off. One PDP-8 was
happy to resume after several years of idleness.
Sorry, had to send that, mutter...
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2020-02-20 11:54 gdmr [this message]
2020-02-20 13:31 ` david
2020-02-20 20:39 ` dave
2020-02-20 23:14 ` stewart
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