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minus-squarealt_xa_23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoDRAM needs 1 transistor per cell, but it loses stored data quickly, and a crab-based computer would probably be too slow to update it.
minus-squarexthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoAh right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.
DRAM needs 1 transistor per cell, but it loses stored data quickly, and a crab-based computer would probably be too slow to update it.
Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.