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40 years ago we entered the megabit memory era with IBM’s DRAM breakthrough — a major leap beyond the 64 kilobit chips common at the time
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Rekall Incorporated piefed.social Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social
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Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/40-years-ago-we-entered-the-megabit-memory-era-with-ibms-dram-breakthrough-a-major-leap-beyond-the-64-kilobit-chips-common-at-the-time

IBM framed the announcement as American tech fighting back against Japan’s increasing domination of the memory market.
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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
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And now we entered the "no affordable memory at all" era.
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