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, instead of Static RAM, for cost-savings; it can be written and read at will.

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