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
>>107711136For 1984 standards 3MB was a lot and actually overkill in many cases, even for a PC AT with an 80286 processor. DOS and DOS-based programs couldn't even use more than 640KB at the time. Not even the LIM EMS standard had been created yet.Until early 1987 the only way to be able to use more than 640KB of ram in an AT would be to install some Unix distro. And in 1987, 4MB of ram was about as expensive as 64GB DDR5 now with the jacked up prices, don't even imagine how much it would be worth in 1984.
>>107710254>are we living in cyberpunk?Yes.But not the cool kind.
