Slashdot Mirror
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?"
Windows has to be rebooted not because of the type of memory used, but the way it handles it. You could have the quickest, most efficient memory around and Windows would still make a pigs ear of dealing with it.
Unix boxes use exactly the same type of memory as PC's but the kernel is rather better at managing it...
Still, this memory would be great in a little Network Walkman - better than the 64Mb in my one!