1. Recently I came across this interesting idea article which introduced me to the OS Card.....yess...the operating system card....read on for some interesting info
(a) The "OS Card" would be inbuilt with a independant operating system that is installed or flashed onto a PCI-E card for computers.
(b) Complete operating system such as Windows/solaris/ubuntu etc would come preloaded one of these cards. Instead of booting and running your OS from your local hard drive, it would run most of the OS from the PCI-E card.
(c) The card would be read only, protecting vital system files from malware such as trojans or viruses. A small number of system files that would require read and write functions would be copied to your local hard drive where they could be modified and read by the card.
2. What would this do? For amateurs it would make installing an operating system much easier. Instead of having to deal with CDs, DVDs and serial numbers a person would simply buy the card and put it in their computer.
3. The best thing to be curbed is that this would be able to put a serious incision in piracy of operating systems. Furthermore, it would free up a considerable amount of space on your hard drive.
4. The OS Card could come with it's own independent CPU and Memory (RAM), which would completely remove the need for an operating system's system requirements. This would most likely speed up all other processes and events being run on the computer now that system processes are now no longer hogging PC resources.As on date some info on related product at http://www.gi-de.com