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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Computers: The New Generation (was: Re: Free Software Foundation)
Message-ID: <8120004@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 23:13:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 23:13:51 1987
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/ nucsrl:comp.unix.wizards / danny@itm.UUCP (Danny) /  7:36 am  Sep  9, 1987 /
>
>    How about a computer with say, 300 Meg of RAM.  There is, also,
>a hard disk of 300 Meg or so (coinsidence? nope).  That's right,
>your memory *is* your file system.  I also envision hardware support
>(surely software could carry the burden at first) so that every write
>to RAM that would affect a file would be queued to also be written
>onto the disk.  The disk could either be backed up by conventional
>means, or removable for off-site storage.

Why do you need hard disk then?  All you need is a reliable constant power
source for your memory.  Then you can do backups from memory, rather then
shadowing it with a hard disk and backing up the disk.

Jacob Gore				gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore