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Revision as of 00:45, 20 December 2018
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; it can be written and read at will.
Many people confuse this with disk secondary memory (although technically disks are also random access - unlike, say, tape secondary storage).