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You’re describing how ancient magnetic core memory works, that’s not how modern DRAM (Dynamic RAM) works. DRAM uses a constant pulsing refresh cycle to recharge the micro capacitors of each cell.

And on top of that, SRAM (Static RAM) doesn’t even need the refresh circuitry, it just works and holds it’s data as long as it remains powered. It only takes 2 discreet transistors, 2 resistors, 2 buttons and 2 LEDs to demonstrate this on a simple breadboard.

I’m taking a wild guess that you’ve never built any circuits yourself.

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I’m taking a wild guess that you completely ignored the subject of the thread to start an electronics engineering pissing contest?

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Do you really trust the results of any computing system, no matter how it’s designed, when it has pathetic memory integrity compared to ancient technology?

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That is not a product. This is research.

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And you would have been there shitting on magnetic core memory when it came out. But without that we wouldn’t have the more advanced successors we have now.

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Nah, core memory is alright in my book, considering the era of technology anyways. I would have been shitting on the William’s Tube CRT Memory system…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SpqayTc_Gcw

Though in all fairness, at the time even that was something of progress.

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Doubt.

Core memory loses information on read and DRAM is only good while power is applied. Your street dime will be readable practically forever and your abacus is stable until someone kicks it over.

You’re not the arbiter of what technology is “good enough” to warrant spending money on.

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