[mdlug] supplemental memory?

[Dean Durant]

Hello, I've gotten to wondering if it's possible to use other devices as memory, like a usb stick, or pcmcia, or even like these little camera memory chips or whatever. This guy where I work has this little tiny chip that he says is 2 GB of storage. It's like half the size of my thumbnail, and not too much thicker. I was amazed when I saw it. 

And so what I mean is during boot, if the kernel sees some sort of high speed storage, can it use that to load programs or anything? 

I know this is a vague question. This is something a legacy OS offered a couple years back or so they claimed. I don't know how well it worked. 

If this were possible, I'm thinking I could do things with my old laptop that might be really slow using virtual. Right now I have damn small on my laptop, and it runs well. I just need to upgrade the kernel, get the right wireless device, and see if I can upgrade firefox, and then it will be perfect for my purposes. 

Just curious, thanks.