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1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit (2012) (theatlantic.com)
27 points by Hooke on Dec 14, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Seriously?

> Since a 10-bit order code, combined with 10 bits specifying a memory address, returned a string of 40 bits, the result was a chain reaction analogous to the two-for-one fission of neutrons within the core of an atomic bomb. All hell broke loose as a result. Random-access memory gave the world of machines access to the powers of numbers -- and gave the world of numbers access to the powers of machines.

That is quite possibly the worst description of addressing RAM that I have ever seen. The whole article attempts to relate addressable memory to DNA, evolution, and nuclear fission in a simply ridiculous way. Is the rest of the source book, _Turing's Cathedral_, this bad?




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