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Re:Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) by redis_mlc on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:48AM (#27172500)
I remember this - it was a big deal, similar to the GPU shortages.

I won a PC RAM expansion card at a VAR event, and it took months for them to scrape up enough memory to populate it.

(It ended up running too hot for my tastes, so I took it out.)

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Re:Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) by fogihujy on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:36AM (#27173262)
Ditto. It was even in the news back then, when IT was a very uncommon topic in mainstream media.
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