harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

[Steve Watt]

In <BAY117-F78C0CC7CE00F3198673F9D4790 at phx.gbl>, Rudy wrote:
>
>   A chip level loading of the core kernel would be the only way.
>
>   So its not possible todo without a completly new hardware
>   infrastructre design.
>
>      - I'm wanting todo this because computers are too slow.

You need to learn a little more about the parts of a computer.  Perhaps
go to Google groups, and read comp.arch for a couple of months, making
sure you understand all of the references.

Disk drives are about 6 orders of magnitude (1,000,000x) slower than DDR
memory.  It takes a few tens of nanoseconds to read a random address
from DDR, a few tens of milliseconds to read a random address from a
disk.

Note that DDR isn't the fastest memory in the system, either -- there
are the L1 and L2 (and sometimes L3) caches as well.

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