From: chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:30:42 +0100
Date: 2003-09-22T17:30:42+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <voFbb.1758$jJ3.27509@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F6F1A93.50709@attbi.com>
Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 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, and I'm looking forward to it. Persistance and Orthogonal
Persistance are the way things should be and in my experience it's what
users expect from a pc the first time the use one. People have to be
trained to think in terms of saving (usually with painful first lesson).
Chris
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-09 13:35 Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection? Jano
2003-09-09 16:24 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-09 18:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-09-10 6:55 ` olehjalmar kristensen - Sun Microsystems - Trondheim Norway
2003-09-11 15:09 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-11 21:21 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-12 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-09-12 15:38 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-15 13:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-09-16 18:04 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-12 15:49 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-14 19:26 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-14 21:46 ` Berend de Boer
2003-09-14 21:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-15 1:43 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-16 16:48 ` Jon S. Anthony
2003-09-16 21:45 ` Berend de Boer
2003-09-17 1:39 ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-09-17 3:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-09-17 14:14 ` Jon S. Anthony
2003-09-17 17:23 ` Gautier Write-only
2003-09-18 0:39 ` Berend de Boer
2003-09-18 16:52 ` chris
2003-09-22 15:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-22 16:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-09-22 16:30 ` chris [this message]
2003-09-23 9:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-09-24 1:46 ` Nick Roberts
2003-09-24 14:28 ` Maxim S. Shatskih
2003-09-24 16:01 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-24 16:52 ` Stephane Richard
2003-09-24 17:19 ` chris
2003-09-25 17:49 ` OT " Pascal Obry
2003-09-25 19:30 ` Pascal Obry
2003-09-25 20:32 ` tmoran
2003-09-26 18:57 ` Pascal Obry
2003-09-27 0:40 ` Stephane Richard
2003-09-27 8:05 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-27 10:01 ` chris
2003-09-24 16:33 ` Time Taken to Boot Nick Roberts
2003-09-24 20:11 ` Mark A. Biggar
2003-09-25 15:14 ` Maxim S. Shatskih
2003-09-25 17:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-09-25 15:00 ` Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection? Robert C. Leif
2003-09-12 17:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-13 9:54 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-13 20:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-15 13:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-09-15 21:17 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
2003-09-14 19:10 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-15 6:48 ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-14 13:19 ` Matthew Heaney
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