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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

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346 points BirAdam | 1 comments | 05 Apr 24 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
1. lowbloodsugar ◴[06 Apr 24 01:34 UTC] No.39949234[source]▶
>Nintendo 64 was an SGI workstation with ... 4MB of Rambus DRAM at 250 MHz (actually 4.5MB but 512K is visible only to the GPU)

It was actually 9-bit RAM, but the CPU could only see 8 of the bits!