With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by trebor on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:56PM (#7879750)

Okay, imagine that to put your computer into hibernation mode all you need to do is hit the power button. This is instantaneous because none of the data has to be synced to permanent memory, because it's already in permanent, non-volatile memory.

I'm not sure what he means by distinguishing between stack/heap either.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by mitchty on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @08:14PM (#7881176)

The stack heap is a bit of a jab at the harvard architecture in general.

I see memristors as being closer to a Von Neumann architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

Even then its not a perfect analogy admittedly. Sorry for the confusion!

I guess a better analogy would be able to be get rid of the idea of "loaded into memory" versus "in ram" versus on permanent storage.

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