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Speaking of frequent rebooting, I always thought the lack of support for orthogonal persistent state, seamless application checkpointing and built-in dynamic so
by caf 11y ago
Speaking of frequent rebooting, I always thought the lack of support for orthogonal persistent state, seamless application checkpointing and built-in dynamic software upgrade facilities represented a failure in modern mainstream computing.
I suspect that if NVRAM fulfills the promise of DRAM-speed and DRAM-price with persistence, that will become the natural model, which will require a bit of a revolution.
- mappu 11y agoMy first thought is that it will make cold-boot attacks and cryogenically-frozen-RAM attacks much more viable in practice.
- anon4 11y ago"Oh, you have to do a full reset. Shut down the computer, wait ten seconds, start it again, hold ctrl+alt+F4, wait for the double-beep, then let go of the keys. Yes, do this every time it locks up."
- caf 11y agoMaybe we'll end up with something the equivalent of fsck but for the in-memory state.