Random Access Memory

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Random Access Memory (often given as RAM) is slang term for a computer's main memory. RAM is almost always implemented with Dynamic RAM now. RAM can be written and read at will.

Many people confuse this with disk secondary memory (although technically disks are also accessible at random - unlike, say, tape secondary storage).