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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoWhy 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours ago Why 640 thousand? It should be enough for anyone.
minus-squarexthexderlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoIt 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.
minus-squarealt_xa_23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoDRAM needs 1 transistor per cell, but it loses stored data quickly, and a crab-based computer would probably be too slow to update it.
minus-squarexthexderlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoAh right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.
Why 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.
It should be enough for anyone.
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.
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.
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.