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they did the math 🦀 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Why 640 thousand?

It should be enough for anyone.