[nzlug] machine pre loaded with linux

Vik Olliver vik.olliver at uiactive.com
Thu Feb 8 10:24:20 NZDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:00 +1300, Robert Coup wrote:
> An onboard SD connector is a few cents, it could connect as a USB
> device if the designer has no engineering skills, and suddenly you
> have 512MB of swap for <US$10.

Flash memory has a write limit of 100,000 cycles. Your SD card is now a
consumable...

When ferromagnetic RAM comes in, this approach will be more practical as
that has no write limit.

Vik :v)
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