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[Tom's Hardware] AMD 3D V-Cache enables RAM disk to hit 182 GB/s speeds - over 12X faster than the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (7 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux

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There are <100MB Linux distributions. Is it theoretically possible to run an entire operating system without RAM, purely in CPU cache?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Xeon Max will boot without any RAM installed at all. Though I'm not sure it counts, considering it has 64gb built into the cpu.

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