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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by VLM on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:50AM (#6012367)
"Modern RAM did not exist until 1975 -- a decade later."

What does that even mean? It doesn't mean DIP packaged DRAM because my dad was buying COTS Intel 1103's in 1971 or so before I was even born. And the first "I'm gonna store one bit of data in a capacitor" was done over the pond in the .uk during WWII at their code breaking plant.

"like 64-bit IP addresses are the replacement for 32-bit IP addresses."

Um...

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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by joshuaellinger on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:00PM (#6013304)
I just looked it up on Wiki. I remember my dad showing me core memory (after it wasn't in production) in the late 70s.
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