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> There is a point where bandwidth is so huge that with a bit of medium and a pair of repeaters, it becomes memory. You are referring to the old "delay line me
by pwg 3y ago
> There is a point where bandwidth is so huge that with a bit of medium and a pair of repeaters, it becomes memory.
You are referring to the old "delay line memories" from yesteryear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
- rbanffy 3y agoI know that. Also magnetic drum memories behaved similarly (as do spinning disks, BTW) and were “main storage” on many machines from the past.