Fun fact: people like to say that unlike Flash memory, RAM can be read or written to one byte at a time, but that's a lie. A typical DIMM's memory array can only be addressed in 64KiB blocks! Writing one byte means reading 64K, modifying one byte, and writing 64K! (1/n)
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Also to clarify this is DRAM. With SRAM you really can address individual units.
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Replying to @RichFelker @ico_TC
Correct. You pay 6 transistors per cell for that privilege (or 4 with some topologies).
8:50 AM - 27 Jan 2018
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