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Originally posted by JohnR
Pushing your agrument a little further, with 512MB sticks of PC133 ram available for less than $40 each, why not run the OS in a ram drive and just output your data dump to your pen drive  or onto CDR...
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I tried that once...trying to get windows to run all in core, it is not as easy as you think. I think that is why MS has an embedded OS division. Also, the other problem is when you shut down... poof. You need to flash the memory somehow. Remember DOS "ram drives"? I think linux is better suited to running in-core than windows anyway (but no apps) .
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The thought has crossed my mind...a couple times... But you would have to give up that 85 min white knuckle drive each morning and move to MV though.
Frankly, I think it is comming soon. It makes no sence to have multiple boxes with built in limited functionality onboard. I would hope it is already being developed. This current "intra-box" communication that everyone is so excited about is so low-tech it is almost laughable. (It is just a slow network and it is a stepping stone to one focused main unit (IMO). They have to be working on this.
The "hard part" as I see it is not hardware...it is developing all the software to deal with the displays and different brands of sensors. Some of it is off the shelf stuff but some would have to be written. But it is do-able.