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I remember when virtual ram was a thing. I can't remember exactly how it worked but IIRC software designated part of your hard disk as temporary ram. Which is a convoluted way of saying it used to be possible
It is still possible. Its called swap
swap is way slower than physical RAM though
PCIe4 NVME is faster than DDR1 used to be.
Uhh kinda. I don't think latency is anywhere near 70ns on a NVMe drive, so it would still be ridiculously slow compared to ddr1 even for most tasks.
The backup ram isn't as good as a dedicated one? Color me shocked
Nowadays people like zram swap
Used to be?
Yup, it's swap on *nix and "page file" or whatever on Windows. Without it, the OS would have to kill apps or just crash when it runs out.
I'm aware. I was hoping op could expound on their statement.
i haven't explicitly used it since i had a 386, forgive me if my memory's rusty