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I don't see what's so groundbreaking here. It looks like a lot of back patting. You've basically described a classical von Neumann architecture. The only reaso

I don't see what's so groundbreaking here. It looks like a lot of back patting. You've basically described a classical von Neumann architecture. The only reason hard drives were added to that is because volatile memory is expensive and the only reason why we don't use flash memory instead is because flash is not performant enough. The proposal has never been impossible. Just impractical and non performant in the real world. There's no such thing as "terabytes of non volatile memory" without either spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on RAM or settling for slow flash RAM.

lproven 6y ago
[Author of the piece here] Back patting? Whose? This is entirely orthogonal to stuff like von Neumann architectures. The core change is eliminating the distinction between primary and secondary or auxiliary storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_data_storage#Secondary_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_data_storage#Secondar... > There's no such thing as "terabytes of non volatile memory" without either spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on RAM or settling for slow flash RAM. You are technologically out of date. This is commercial, shipping technology now. https://www.storagereview.com/news/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-module-pmm https://www.storagereview.com/news/intel-optane-dc-persisten...