Kenn Yuill wrote:

>HT,
>
>Okay, you are indicating that hard drives will be replaced by large
>flash memory cards or banks of DRAM or SRAM or similar methods of
>storage, which makes perfect sense to me.  Of course, the alternative
>is the rental of software & storage so that everyone must go online to
>use any applications and the computer would be just a device with
>sufficient RAM & software to boot, access their networks and run the
>necessary applications.
>__________________________________________________________
>On 2004-04-26 at 10:34:02, a message from htravis{at}attglobal.net stated:
>
>Nobody will care, soon, because of the price of solid state memory.
>The minimum price of solid state memory is what matters. "Dirt cheap"
>is almost not an oxymoron, referring to silicon. 
>

Hi Kenn,

DRAM [dynamic] wouldn't be of any use as permanent storage unless you 
never lost power, as it has to be constantly refreshed.
Static RAM is the only *fast* RAM that maintains its contents without 
having to be refreshed, which is the reason it it used for L2 CACHE, but 
it too loses it's contents when power is not applied, so the only valid 
item mentioned, apart from online storage is flash memory and that's too 
slow.

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