are we living in cyberpunk?
>tfw fell for the 3 MiB of RAM meme
>>107710254>hot RAMWas it RDRAM?
>>107710254>are we living in cyberpunk?Yes.
it's about what's in the RAM you fuckwadCase works in the black market for data
>>107710905hot(swap) RAMits like the equivalent of saying "i got a 3mb usb drive"
neuromancer predicted everything, including jamaican anarchoterrorists
>>107710254Even by 1984 standards, 3 megs was not that much: the IBM PC-AT could be expanded to 4 megs with an ISA memory card, and just a couple of years later the Compaq DeskPro 386 could do 16 megs.
>>107710936thats retarded unless he can physically access a sensitive computer and remove it's ram without unpowering it its useless more likely it's just very fast ram that was rare in the neuromancer universe o algo
>>107711171go back retard
Trump caved, the crisis will be soon overhttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-wins-us-annual-approval-chipmaking-tool-shipments-china-source-says-2025-12-30/
>>107710254cryptonomicon > neuromancer
>>107710254It was written by a techlet throwing buzzword around every other sentence. I get that boomers were impressed by it, but reading all of that shit in this day and age is actually painful if you're even a bit familiar with technology.
>>107711136You're talking about a time when consumer microcomputers had less then half a meg for even high end configs.
>>107711426Still, tech was advancing so fast, it should have been clear that this would be a small amount soon. But Gibson admittedly knew nothing about computers then.https://web.archive.org/web/20130427010543/https://www.theawl.com/2013/04/william-gibson-on-burroughs-sterling-dick-libraries-the-uncanny-and-the-internet
