SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011

Re:SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 by mathgladiator on Saturday June 30, 2012 @07:33PM (#4183165)

> What would an OS designed from the ground up

I wager it would look mostly the same. The reason I say this is because there would still be a distinction between the CPU's memory, the system memory, and then "disk". So long as the IO hierarchy exists, I wager the OS design would more or less be the same.

Now, when memristors come about which have compute+massive memory, then we will need a new OS.

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Re:SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 by sliverstorm on Saturday June 30, 2012 @07:44PM (#4183185)

Agreed on the first part; SSD is still orders of magnitude slower than RAM, which is really what matters in the distinction between memory and storage, from a computing point of view. The rest is just implementation details (SSD has wear leveling, HDD has park and resume, etc)

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