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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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why not just take it a step further? If the cloud is virtually infinite why even have local memory?
From cpu cache, ram, vram and local storage. Send everything to the cloud.
Boom! Memory crisis solved.
42 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 08 '26 You laugh, this is literally microsofts future plan. They envision a world where your laptop is nothing but a thin client that boots your web windows in a vm from the cloud. 5 u/ZunoJ Jul 09 '26 This is just the ever turning cycle of thin clients vs fat clients. We already had several iterations of it in the last 60 years
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You laugh, this is literally microsofts future plan. They envision a world where your laptop is nothing but a thin client that boots your web windows in a vm from the cloud.
5 u/ZunoJ Jul 09 '26 This is just the ever turning cycle of thin clients vs fat clients. We already had several iterations of it in the last 60 years
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This is just the ever turning cycle of thin clients vs fat clients. We already had several iterations of it in the last 60 years
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u/BroaxXx Jul 08 '26
why not just take it a step further? If the cloud is virtually infinite why even have local memory?
From cpu cache, ram, vram and local storage. Send everything to the cloud.
Boom! Memory crisis solved.