Sujet : Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360
De : jgd (at) *nospam* cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 24. Jun 2024, 16:20:18
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In article <
0BeeO.13060$zMs3.12993@fx48.iad>,
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott
Lurndal) wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
That would be DRAM. Whatever happened to SRAM? Surely having a few
mebibytes of that can't be a big cost these days.
I'm not sure what a mebibyte is.
A pedant's way of saying 1024*1024 bytes, as opposed to 1000*1000 bytes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Units_based_on_powers_of_10>
John
Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360