Though the new PCs have more processing power than older HP thin clients and are equipped with wireless connectivity, they have no hard drive and carry just enough flash memory to host the software necessary to wirelessly connect to a data center or to the Internet.

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He says the reasons no one has done this before is that main memory was not typically big enough.

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Often enough, no train would pass, as if that part of Argentina had been erased from memory as well as from the map.

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