Memory in the tech world, particularly tech journalism, is non-existent. I first ran an OS off a thumb drive years ago - the only reason I didn't do it regularly was that USB ports were not ubiquitous. Before that I ran an OS off a CD with a thumb drive
for data. Heck, I started with personal computing with an OS on a 5.25" 360K floppy (as an aside, it takes just as long to compile a program now as it did back then with a dual floppy setup - one of the constants of the computing world).
There's a reason we who live in the computing world long enough become jaded at the re-invention of old, sometimes failed, concepts. Partly that trend is offset by the rediscovery of technology that worked better than its fashionable replacement. Partly
that trend is amusing - I don't know how many grand, unified military logistics systems I've watched fail and we're on about the fifth iteration of AI.
Ray Parks
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On Sep 8, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Anyone have a theory about how this is supposed to change the world forever more than running some other Linux distribution off a $7.00 USB drive? Or running ChromeOS off a USB drives? That's been done for years.
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