memory
May 12, 2022 17:24:18 #
chrissybabe wrote:
I didn't want to confuse anybody by raising the issue of magnetic core memory. Enough people on here use various terms so loosely and get confused that that would have been another.
May 12, 2022 20:53:01 #
Big issue with talking about "memory" has always been differentiating between "system operating RAM capability" and "system data storage availability". Unfortunately regularly thought of as "memory" but two very different concepts.
May 12, 2022 21:04:10 #
chrissybabe
Loc: New Zealand
I don't know where the idea came from to confuse bulk storage capacity (disk drives) with system memory but the two are vastly different. I personally have never confused the two but some do. Calling a cow a horse does not make the cow instantly become a horse - it remains a cow. And when talking about one or the other it is just stupidly wrong to confuse them. There is no need to specifically differentiate between the two as they are actually two completely different things, same as between a cow and a horse (lets not get into semantics about how they both have 4 legs etc). If you are one of those people who get confused then get unconfused because it will make your life much easier when talking about computers and will make you seem less ignorant.
May 12, 2022 21:23:02 #
BArthur3 wrote:
Big issue with talking about "memory" has always been differentiating between "system operating RAM capability" and "system data storage availability". Unfortunately regularly thought of as "memory" but two very different concepts.
Computer people refer to memory as the system operating memory in the computer, RAM/DRAM.
Storage, not memory, is where the files are stored, HDD/SSD.
May 12, 2022 21:27:00 #
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