From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19140af19dfa6e01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-22 09:26:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection? References: <1127954.kcBZz6amlf@linux1.krischik.com> <3F60E747.40805@attbi.com> <1557617.vUiuI5kIPQ@linux1.krischik.com> <3F6F1A93.50709@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <3F6F1A93.50709@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:30:42 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1064247963 81.98.236.164 (Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:26:03 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:26:03 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42752 Date: 2003-09-22T17:30:42+01:00 List-Id: 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