[gcblkjaidfj]

decades ago i was following a kid's graduation project of a OS with full permanence design. that was before Android and other always on "computers".

it was called something like unununium (yeah, same name as the element, for extra hard-to-search points). I noticed the project when he suggested unununium-time as an alternative to linux time in a list was at, to fix some time skew problems... But what caught my interest was his vision that in the near future (remember, before android/IOS) computers would not care about offline data storage and a OS should be optimized for always-on and RAM only.

I can still find some of the assembly versions, but the fun stuff and interesting ideas showed up on a rewrite in python(!) and that i can't find anything any more.

edit: here's the best i could find https://web.archive.org/web/20060208191407/http://en.wikiped...

seems the vision was to threat the persistent storage as the only system memory.

[BlueTemplar]

NVRAM then?

[gcblkjaidfj]

the visionary aspect was that it didn't need new hardware concepts. Just drop the ephemeral ram (or treat it like L4 cache, so to say) and hope permanent storage gets faster, which it did.