No More Rebooting?

blankmange writes: "This headline caught my eye: 'The End of Computer Rebooting.' Seems that there has been some new developments in memory technology: The new thin-film technology that could give rebooting the boot is based on resistor logic rather than the traditional transistor logic used in most PCs and other memory-enabled devices. It also is considerably faster than current memory systems and holds the promise of reducing the time required to transfer and download multimedia content and other massive files. This is great news, but what am I going to do with the extra hour or so a day?"

Comments

Bad title for the article

[qurob]

It just talks about memory that doesn't lose state when you hit the power button on your PC.

We've got to invent perfect software that can run forever without needing to be restarted, first.

rebooting will not die, yet.

[PineGreen]

Well, rebooting is MUCH more that just recovering the memory content!!

We could easily dump the memory contents onto the hard drive straigh away and we are not doing it (except in laptops, but even there it doesn't always work) This is because rebooting reinitializes various devices and takes care of the time jump (i.e. crons, anacrons, etc). The more complicated your system is the less likely it is that you are going to survive without booting.

Also, computers are now 1000 times faster than 10 years ago and they take much more time to boot (DOS did it in seconds on 286).

how does this mean faster downloads?

[TechnoLust]

holds the promise of reducing the time required to transfer and download multimedia content and other massive files

Last time I checked, downloading speed depended on your connection, not how fast your RAM goes. I'm sure my memory can handle more than 1.5 Mb/s but that's as fast an I can download, because that is the limit of my DSL line.