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Hardware Transactional Persistent Memory
- jf 8y agoComputers in the 50's and 60's used core memory, which was persistent. I was surprised to learn that it was common practice to "pause" computations over the weekend by writing a few bytes to the "boot sector" so that the computation could be restarted later.
- ggm 8y agoI have some core from the seventies on a shelf. I often wonder if the residual magnetism is readable.