A New Idea !! 4:30 am E.S.T. am i nuts ???? 1

[TRYP]

Solid State Operating Systems:
a new approach

I pose a simple question. Why do we have our precious Operating Systems sitting upon such a vulnerable and slow device as a hard drive?

Some of you are probably already wondering if I am on the same planet of thought as the rest of us. But, I say imagine if updating our OS (Operating System) would be as easy as unplugging the old one and plugging in the new one. In addition, the OS would be virtually impervious to a software based attack. If, by some vicious entity, our OS becomes corrupted in it's temporary files sitting in RAM the remedy would be simple: Power OFF then power ON; Fixed. Continue computing.

Computing speed would increase. Instead of the OS having to go out to an archaic device such as a spinning magnetic disk it's own I/O instructions would be read at the speed of electricity not the speed of the hard drive, not to mention the possibility of freeing up RAM since the OS could be outfitted with it's own dedicated memory.

 

[edfair]

Try the idea of a solid state disk. The animal exists already. Problem #1 is cost. Problem #2 is the OS itself which intermixes storage for pointers etc. within the code for the OS. And if you mix storage within the OS then you are subject to the same problems of corruption.
This would be a better idea. Now if you could just get all the OS writers to do it. You could also write the kernel to cdrom, so if you lost the backup battery and lost the kernel, it could be reloaded simply.

Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[rfeenie]

acorn archimedies did this did they not ? OS on the BIOS. old news