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by krackout 1366 days ago
I think the article is very shortsighted. By 2035-40 we'll probably have memory only (RAM) computers massively available. No disks means no current OS capable of handling these computers. A change of paradigm needing new platforms and OSes.

These future OSes may be 128bit, but I don't think the current ones will make it to the transition.
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alpb 1366 days ago
There are plenty of OSes today capable of booting and running from RAM. Pretty sure we wouldn't be burning all the prominent OSes for something like that.
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krackout 1363 days ago
Forget the concept of booting. Boot transfers the kernel OS from disk to RAM. No such thing would be needed on a RAM memory only computer.
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