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>What happens if the distinction goes away? What if all data is persistent? A while ago (a few years?) there was some buzz about a new kind of machine from HP
by vram22 10y ago
>What happens if the distinction goes away? What if all data is persistent?
A while ago (a few years?) there was some buzz about a new kind of machine from HP (maybe based on memristors? which were also in the news around then, IIRC), that was supposed to do away with that distinction. They called it The Machine or something like that (:-). I did not follow it at the time, after the initial read, so don't know what happened to it.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe results of the research being made into a product now, managed by a new foundation named Gen Z. "BUD17-503 The HPE Machine and Gen Z" at Linaro Connect 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVtChDQVyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVtChDQVyQ
- vram22 10y agoThanks, will check that out.
- lathiat 10y agoKeith Packard also did a number of talks at linux.conf.au over the years about various bits and pieces of the machine
- vram22 10y agoInteresting, thanks. I recognized his name as one who worked [1] on the X Window system, from a book in an X/Xlib/Motif course [2] I attended much earlier. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard Googled his name and found this: A look at The Machine [LWN.net]: https://lwn.net/Articles/655437/ https://lwn.net/Articles/655437/ [2] On a side note, Motif was pretty powerful. I remember a colleague of mine who was also in that course, creating a rudimentary app like MS Paint, in the class, in just half an hour or so - as the instructor was teaching, in fact. (Maybe he had studied it some before, of course.) As he demoed it to us, he went "Foo!" :)