In addition, five games could be saved with a battery-backed RAM chip.
One problem with today's RAM chips is that they forget everything once the power goes off.
This limits which RAM chips a particular computer model can use.
Because hard disk space is so much cheaper than RAM chips, it also has a nice economic benefit.
For convenience, the counter was quickly incorporated into RAM chips themselves.
Its sensitivity is only limited by the number of RAM chips built into it.
Incidentally, this sort of thing is also what differentiates RAM chips from each other.
Once the RAM chips are made, they're sorted by how much they can hold.
The protein memory design had one hundred times the capacity of today's best RAM chips.
An example is RAM chips, some of which can run at a lower (or sometimes higher) clock rate than rated.