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Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer
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No computer is ever really storageless. Even the BIOS has to be stored somewhere. If you didn't have any storage, you wouldn't be able to load any code, and it would not be a computer, it would be a brick.
The point is that calling the computer storage less is what’s wrong.
Not necessarily, you could build all of the boot stuff into hardware, have it send all input to the cloud server, and only have enough hardware to render images. Boom, no storage, everything is static.
Where is that boot code kept? Is that not storage? I mean, even magnetic core memory is storage. An array of vacuum tubes is storage. If you wired up a bunch of transistors to perform mathematic operations, do the wires and transistors on the breadboard count as storage? Maybe not. If you did it on an FPGA, I would say yes, though.
This is all semantics, of course, but it's interesting to think about nonetheless. Ask a web developer and a BIOS ROM developer about what's programmable, and you'll get two very different answers. :P