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robertlagrant on July 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things that surprised me while running SQLite in p...

You reminded me of walking home from school one day in the late 90s and talking with a friend about how RAM had hit £1/MB, and how amazing that was.

Today I can buy it at much faster speeds and better timings for £0.03/MB. Damn capitalism.

stevesimmons on July 4, 2023 [–]

2114 static RAM in 1985 was around £1/kB [1].

That's 7 orders of magnitude in 35 years.

[1] https://stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=29208&sid...

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