to defend the sceptics: in 1960, memory cost (inflation adjusted) ~46t USD/TB, so a modest 4K stack would've set you back the equivalent of ~180k USD. Stacks a

to defend the sceptics: in 1960, memory cost (inflation adjusted) ~46t USD/TB, so a modest 4K stack would've set you back the equivalent of ~180k USD. Stacks are effectively (10MB for 1 cent) zero-cost abstractions now; they were not then. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...