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Random Access Memory |   |
Hardware - Processor and Memory - Memory
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Random Access Memory (RAM) is responsible for storing the instructions and data that the computer is using at that present moment in time.
 A module of RAM showing 30 pins.
It is described as volatile
memory as the contents of RAM chips can be lost when the
computer is turned off or when new data is being written
to RAM while other data is being processed. |