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		pansa2 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the consol... True, but the way they work is more like discs than ROMs: their data isn’t immediately available but needs to be loaded into RAM.

masklinn 20 days ago [–]

True, but the low latency and constant-ish access patterns of flash makes a lot of its performance characteristics closer to ROM than CDs, even with the intermediate copy.

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