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Starting Over

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-02-07· at 17:00· M.misc

speaker

name:Liam Proven

links:none on file

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/M.misc/new_type_of_computer.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/attachments/slides/4712/export/events/attachments/new_type_of_computer/slides/4712/Starting_Over_slides.pdf

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/attachments/slides/4713/export/events/attachments/new_type_of_computer/slides/4713/Starting_Over_slides_only.odp

summary

Proposes an OS design for machines with large non‑volatile main memory (e.g. Intel 3D XPoint/Optane, future memristors) that removes disks, disk controllers and traditional filesystems. Describes replacing filesystem‑centric Unix abstractions with an alternative OS architecture that treats all persistent storage as directly memory‑mapped RAM, and outlines how existing FOSS code and historical system ideas could be used to build such a general‑purpose system.

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