

Memory connected via the pci bus to the CPU, would be too slow for application use like that.
Apple had to use soldered in ram for their unified memory because the length of the traces on the mobo news to be so tightly controlled. Pci is way too slow comparatively.
You got it from a friend on a pile of slackware and floppies labeled various letters. It felt amazing and fresh, everything you could need was just a floppy away.
Then we got Gentoo and suddenly it was fun to wait 4 days to compile your kernel.