Why 640 thousand?
It should be enough for anyone.
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Why 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 days ago
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 days ago
It also equates 1 bit to 1 logic gate, which I’m not sure it’s possible to create memory using that few gates unless it’s read-only. All memory cell circuits I know of require at least 2 logic gates.
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
DRAM needs 1 transistor per cell, but it loses stored data quickly, and a crab-based computer would probably be too slow to update it.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 days ago
Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.