Random(ly) Access(ed) Memory
Ramifications — origin story for a new/old/now paradigm
Nov 1 · 3 min read
Once upon a multiple, unquantifiable time, in an integrated circuit made of millions of transistors and capacitors — a memory controller [now, inside this very machine] told tiny bag-like capacitors that they are either empty (0) or full (1)[1]. But there’s a problem — complication — in a millisecond they become empty, just like human memory, these points need constant re-reading and re-writing. The memory controller runs this spinning-plate cycle thousands of times a second — an array of…

