Wasn't the original vision of the OS such that the underlying hardware technology could change as new technology came along and the single level store concept would be able to deal with it without an OS rewrite and/or any applications even being aware the new storage type even existed? Just a change to the microcode level to know how to talk to the new hardware. Be that traditional disk, or solid state disk, or bubble RAM, or flash drives or ?...... Isn't this very similar to what Microsoft tried to do with letting you plug in a USB flash drive to extend the memory available to Windows? (mimicking the concept of single level storage in a very basic, very limited level). In fact if we extend this concept to moving storage to the cloud, the i/OS model could very easily me adapted to connect the OS to cloud storage and none of my applications would even need to know there was no local disk and it was all "out there" somewhere.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 2:02 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Explaining single level store to non i people
From: Hans Boldt
What business can justify a plan based on some questionable
technology that won't happen for at least 40 years?
Perhaps a visionary company that plans on being around in 40 years?
I see your point, from a purely logical perspective - a business could base all its plans on the last quarterly financial report ;-)
Actually, I don't know if they really envisioned pairing SLS with solid state storage. Maybe it just turned out to be icing on the cake.
-Nathan.
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