Jerry Feldman wrote:
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). RAM has always been used to refer to internal memory. Disk is not random access, but is not fully sequential. While a program can address just about any byte on a disk drive, generally, one must position the heads at the
On Monday 18 July 2005 9:34 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: proper cylinder, wait for the sector containing your data to pass under the heads, and then read that sector into internal memory, then extract your data from that sector. It is also orders of magnitude slower than RAM storage.
In some early computers, a drum or disk was the main memory. There was no core or any other type of "internal" memory.