The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
sigwom.com
The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
1–10 of 17 posts
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#2Looks like a perfect backing device for /dev/null
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#3The following pdf is roughly the same as the one linked in the article, but has better formatting/ocr so it tends to be more effective when trolling your favorite EE friends.
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#4[deleted]
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#5Oh goodness, this press release.
> Dr. Morris Breakthrough, a consultant on leave from Uisge Beatha, Ltd., of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
I lost it.
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#6"Lawson’s contributions too as he was a real comedian with lots of semiconductor experience. He could have invented the WOM concept. He did invent the “SCROM”. I doubt if any one else knows what that is. I’ll add later."
"SCROM" must mean Self-Clear Read-Only Memory?
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#7Looks like a perfect backing device for /dev/null
/dev/random gets all the attention, it's high time for a /dev/null hardware implementation.
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#8The concept of WOM isn't completely pointless for non von Neumann architectures, and could even be useful for von Neumann-esque SPMD or MPMD systolic array (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array) architectures that have strict execution models forced in the core to core wiring. While not completely free form, you would still have instructions and data being stored in the same space, it would be only readable by the individual PU is corresponds to. That PU would not write-back to that same memory, and instead could only write to an adjacent PU's memory, which then would only be readable (and not writable) by that next PU in the line.
I've been wanting to implement such an architecture on an FPGA for a while now... may do so over this winter break.
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#9Looks like a perfect backing device for /dev/null
/dev/random gets all the attention, it's high time for a /dev/null hardware implementation.
There is /dev/null as a service: http://devnull-as-a-service.com/
Re: The Real Story of the Write-Only-Memory
#10Looks like a perfect backing device for /dev/null
By coincidence, I happen to have backups of /dev/null. Of every computer, every nanosecond since the beginning of the Universe. From this and all possible Universes.