Re: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection?

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:51:37 GMT, "Robert I. Eachus"
<rieachus@attbi.com> wrote:

>Actually, this is going to happen--as far as the hardware is concerned. 
>  There are several types of memory that may replace DRAM in the next 
>few years, polymer memory and MRAM seem the leading candidates right now.
>
>But the common property of all these new memory types is that they are 
>persistant, just like flash memory.  So assuming that the OS allows it, 
>cycling power (or a power failure) won't require a reboot.  The OS will 
>already be in memory and initialized.  Of course, the gotcha in that 
>phrase is "if the OS allows" and if Windows doesn't and Linux does for 
>some period of years, that could be the end of Windows.  (But I don't 
>expect that. Windows currently supports sleep states in laptops that 
>should be fairly similar in implementation.)

Yep. Especially interesting it becomes with plug'n'play devices. You
have, say a USB or PCMCIA device attached, before your Windoze
hibernates. While it peacefully sleeps, you archly eject the hardware
and then wake it up! The effect might be amazing, though predictable
...

Of course in a truly memory-mapped OS, the present concept of hardware
drives is out of place. One more reason for Ada OS?

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Dmitry Kazakov
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