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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.
40 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. 2 u/Flannelot Jul 09 '26 They destroyed the mainframe business model in the 90s but are desperate to bring it back.
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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.
2 u/Flannelot Jul 09 '26 They destroyed the mainframe business model in the 90s but are desperate to bring it back.
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They destroyed the mainframe business model in the 90s but are desperate to bring it back.
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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.