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random-access memory


(RAM) (Previously "direct-access memory"). A data storage device for which the order of access to different locations does not affect the speed of access. This is in contrast to, say, a href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=magnetic disk">magnetic disk, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=magnetic tape">magnetic tape or a href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=mercury delay line">mercury delay line where it is very much quicker to access data sequentially because accessing a non-sequential location requires physical movement of the storage medium rather than just electronic switching. The most common form of RAM in use today is built from href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=semiconductor">semiconductor href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=integrated circuit">integrated circuits, which can be either static (href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=SRAM">SRAM) or dynamic (href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=DRAM">DRAM). In the 1970s magnetic href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=core">core memory was used. RAM is still referred to as core by some old-timers. The term "RAM" has gained the additional meaning of read-write. Most kinds of semiconductor href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=read-only memory">read-only memory (ROM) are actually "random access" in the above sense but are never referred to as RAM. Furthermore, memory referred to as RAM can usually be read and written equally quickly (approximately), in contrast to the various kinds of href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=programmable read-only memory">programmable read-only memory. Finally, RAM is usually volatile though href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=non-volatile random-access memory">non-volatile random-access memory is also used. Interestingly, some href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=DRAM">DRAM devices are not truly random access because various kinds of "href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=page mode">page mode" or "column mode" mean that sequential access is faster than random access. (1995-12-05)

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