-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2005-07-21 at 21:12 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
And no, I do not accept naming HD memory as RAM memory, for one thing: it is not directly addressable by the processor, thus it is not even "memory". Reading from HD requires a program, as it resides in a peripheral device. I call it "long term external storage space" ;-)
That's the case for modern computers, but back in the dark ages, some computers used a drum or disk for memory.
Which was directly addressable for that architecture ;-) Just think, how could you run a program to read a byte from the drum, if that program has to run in drum memory! Impossible, it has to be read directly, or otherwise, it needs other type of memory. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC4FGutTMYHG2NR9URAttsAJ9ZcgmsvWsM3FD04fewH2FRLuvYtQCfVnMg Xb1GlNZYKo8CHyAO+Z/pa2Y= =Sl2h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----