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Re:Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail? by tsotha on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:16AM (#9862530)
Heh. When I went to college one of my professors told us cosmic rays made computer systems with more than four megabytes completely impractical.

Oh, and get off my lawn.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail? by burnte on Friday July 10, 2015 @03:26PM (#9866202)
> Oh, and get off my lawn.

Indeed, that had to be, what, in the early to late 70s? I remember the Cray X-MP in the early 80s supported up to 16MB and frequently came with 4 to start.

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