RAM: the forgotten history

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 27 Oct, 17:05 UTC

lcamtuf has posted a history of working memory on blog.coredump.cx, arguing that RAM gets far less attention than Babbage and that memory constraints held back personal computing until the end of the 20th century. The post starts with relay latches, including the roughly 2,000 relays in the memory…