[COFF] non-volatile main memory (NVMM)

[George Ross]

Seen on one of our local "seminars" lists recently...

> Emerging hardware, such as non-volatile main memory (NVMM) [...]
> changes the way system software should be designed and implemented,
> because they are not just an enhanced version of existing devices,
> but provide new qualitative features and software interfaces.

Core store, mutter, mutter.

We used to regularly restart machines which had been turned off for a 
while, and they would happily pick up where they left off.  One PDP-8 was 
happy to resume after several years of idleness.

Sorry, had to send that, mutter...
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