On Monday, July 18, 2005 @ 5:17 PM, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:06, Greg Wallace wrote:
Note that a hard drive is RAM. Twice your RAM would likely be quite a few gigabytes
Ok. Maybe I'm too old school. I was using RAM to refer to internal memory chips.
This has nothing to do with age. RAM stands for (and has always stood for) Random Access Memory. It refers to how you access it. The opposite is Sequential memory.
RAM simply means that you can access any part without first having to read through all the bits before it first.
Technically, a hard disk is non-volatile RAM, while internal memory is volatile RAM (meaning it gets cleared when you turn the power off)
Right. I'm just used to calling internal memory RAM. Why? I don't know. So what is the common term you use when you're talking about the chips in your machine as opposed to, say, a disk drive? As you say they're both RAM. They're also both memory (one short term, one long term). Greg Wallace