> relatively new and modern Seeing RAM as a collection of linear addresses on GPUs (especially as shared virtual memory, pinned memory, or other such GPU/CPU

> relatively new and modern Seeing RAM as a collection of linear addresses on GPUs (especially as shared virtual memory, pinned memory, or other such GPU/CPU virtual memory sharing features) is a feature from 2010-era, be it from OpenCL, DirectCompute, or CUDA. DirectCompute just sees the data as a collection of bytes.