The lowly seer

MRAM

BBC story

Could be one of the greatest inventions ever. It's gonna be a long while until it reaches the stage where it can replace disc drives, but are there any ways to use some MRAM? Hard to see unless OS's are modified to specificallly use it, e.g. a dual level of page store such that on booting up the system largely or wholly remembers where it was at closedown. In the days of DOS you could see it happening, but given the complexity of Windows XP or OS/X, would their manufacturers be prepared to swallow the cost? We can only hope so.

posted by Les the Spaceman @ 9:39 pm