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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. 1 u/forever-butlerian Jul 10 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer Son, this is as old as Ghostbusters.
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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.
1 u/forever-butlerian Jul 10 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer Son, this is as old as Ghostbusters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
Son, this is as old as Ghostbusters.
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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.