How to Make a Dedicated DRAM Back to Quote Unquote Drive for Virtual Memory Backing Store

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Every computer or personal computer has a cache hierarchy of essentially how distant is this piece of memory that I want to get? The least distance are registers, which are right there in the CPU. There's level two cache, which is cheaper, larger, but more distant. And then you get RAM, which is way bigger, much more quote unquote distant because it's at the other end of a bus and leads to someplace else in the same package. John: Apple could have external DRAM and slots, but also RAM on the CPU. That dedicated RAM would just be used for disk.

Pre-show:
- Blue Man Group
- 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
- EV thoughts from Sam Abuelsamid
- Tesla V4 Superchargers
- iPadOS 17 window management
- An extended aside about social networks, federation, and socialism
- iCloud Keychain 🤝 third-party browsers
  - Ricky’s 🍑💨
  - Chrome Extension
Casey’s no-good, very bad day 😭😬
#askatp:
- Is Time Machine really useful anymore, anyway? (via Dan Provost)
  - Synology Products Compatibility List
- Could a third-party ARM chip end up in a Mac Pro? (via Torb)
- Servers love large CPUs; could Apple use Apple Silicon in servers? (via David Loring)
  - Apple Network Server
  - Xserve
- Could Apple make a hyper-fast “drive” to sorta-kinda expand RAM? (via Patrick Melody)
- Why no dual-socket CPU in the Mac Pro? (via Aryan Aneja)
- Does the Mac Pro really have an “super car” attributes anymore? (via Jan Lehnardt)
- Is the Vision Pro now the “halo car”? (via David Saunders)
Post-show: Marco’s update