20 Feb
2020
20 Feb
'20
11:54 a.m.
Seen on one of our local "seminars" lists recently...
Emerging hardware, such as non-volatile main memory
(NVMM) [...]
changes the way system software should be designed and implemented,
because they are not just an enhanced version of existing devices,
but provide new qualitative features and software interfaces.
Core store, mutter, mutter.
We used to regularly restart machines which had been turned off for a
while, and they would happily pick up where they left off. One PDP-8 was
happy to resume after several years of idleness.
Sorry, had to send that, mutter...
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