On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Rick van Rein wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> Future generations of Linux are likely to run on machines with non-volatile
> memories based on bistable technologies.  This will save the energy of DRAM
> refresh cycles and avoid the mechanical problems related to hard disks.  The
> result is probably a computer with no distinction between disk and RAM.

unless there has been a breakthrough that I haven't heard about (always 
possible) I seriously doubt that this is the case.

the alternate technologies that I have heard about are either _far_ less 
dense then DRAM (similar to static ram) or require erasing in blocks 
(similar to flash). niether one is appropriate for a large, flat 
addressed memory architecture as you list below.

David Lang
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