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Revision as of 17:59, 26 December 2016
Random Access Memory (often given as RAM) is slang term for a computer's main memory. Many people confuse this with disk secondary memory (although technically disks are also accessible at random - unlike, say, tape secondary storage). RAM can be written and read at will.
