On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Louis LaBrunda
<Lou at keystone-software.com> wrote:
> A Smalltalk program running on a server with a large amount of flash memory,
> could run without the need for another form of database.  The flash memory would
> be in addition to the normal memory, with both available as RAM.  The flash
> memory would not look like a hard disk replacement.

You might want to do some reading about GemStone
http://www.gemstone.com/products/smalltalk/

It does much of what you discuss. They have a free version so you can
explore more how it behaves.