On Friday 23 November 2007 14:48, woodelf wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
A guy sent me 1G of ram, sitting here in 4 sticks. I haven't decided
yet
which box I'm gonna put it in, but I
can't even picture how much bigger
a pile that would amount to (never mind suppor hardware, board space,
and power requirements) if one wanted to implement that in 16K parts.
Thank GOD that is not CORE. This small city here is the main memory ... :)
Yeah, not to mention what it would take to power it...
I notice that even those guys that are building relay computers "cheat" and
use a single small solid-state chip for RAM. :-)
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