[cogman10]

> Its price just goes up and down in cycles.

Historically the price has always trended downward. When I first got into computing $200 could buy you 128 MB (yes M) of ram. Really nice systems had 512 MB.

That's obviously changed over the decades as process shrinks have lead to higher memory density. We should generally expect that ram will cheaper up and until the point where process shrinks stop happening. They've definitely slowed, but they haven't stopped.

[ksec]

>They've definitely slowed, but they haven't stopped.

Yes if you span into 40 years. But the spot price for DRAM floor was ~$2/GB in 2008 and touched that 2-3 times over the next 15 year. It wasn't until early 2020s it broke that into $1.

Process shrinks happen but majority of DRAM part can't be shrinked by process any more.

[NikolaNovak]

Exactly. My first computer had 48k, yes K of ram :-). My first PC has 2MB and made all my friends jealous as they had 1MB. Amiga 500 at the time had half.

I am keeping a piece of paper that came with my Tex Murphy game which stated that one could get 32MB of RAM for as little as $700 (1990s dollars) which would drastically improve the game!