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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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hyperific ◴[12 Oct 25 06:25 UTC] No.45555776[source]▶
RAM Disks. Basically extremely fast storage using RAM sticks slotted into a specially made board that fit in a PCIe slot. Not sure what happened to the project exactly but the website disappeared sometime in 2023.

The idea that you could read and write data at RAM speeds was really exciting to me. At work it's very common to see microscope image sets anywhere from 20 to 200 GB and file transfer rates can be a big bottleneck.

Archive capture circa 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329173623/https://ddramdisk...

HN post from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35195029

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1. carstenhag ◴[12 Oct 25 06:55 UTC] No.45555914[source]▶
You can do this in software, I tried it a few times with games and just other stuff ~10 years ago. Why would it have to be a hardware solution?