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Re:The road to Zettalinux by krackout on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:15PM (#32953884)
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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Re:The road to Zettalinux by alpb on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:17PM (#32953907)
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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Re:The road to Zettalinux by krackout on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:16AM (#32981644)
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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