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From: "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:13:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:34:05 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > Not only is RAM the new disk ...
> 
> That would be DRAM. Whatever happened to SRAM? Surely having a few 
> mebibytes of that can’t be a big cost these days.


For most applications, that SRAM is best used as a cache.  Multi
megabyte caches made from SRAM are common.


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