| How can a computer be such an amazing gadget? | | | | where you have to go through other memory |
| To many people they just can't be so amazed | | | | cells before accessing the data that you are |
| on how computers have changed the way we | | | | looking for. |
| live. Computers can now be found in many | | | | |
| sizes and shapes. Almost every home appliance | | | | Other types of computer memory include the |
| seems to have their own mini computer located | | | | ROM or Read Only Memory. ROM is an integrated |
| somewhere. From cars to buildings to almost | | | | circuit already programmed with specific data |
| every gadget there is, most of the time each | | | | that cannot be modified or changed, hence the |
| one has a computer working to make them run | | | | name "Read Only". There is also another type |
| and change the very way we live life. | | | | of computer memory called Virtual Memory. |
| | | | This type of memory is a common component in |
| First and foremost, the most important | | | | most operating systems and desktops. It helps |
| component of the computer is its processor. | | | | the computers RAM to be freed up with unused |
| It is considered the heart of the computer | | | | applications to make way for loading current |
| that does all the calculating and processing. | | | | applications being used. It works simply by |
| But with all that calculating and processing, | | | | checking for data stored in RAM not being |
| the computer won't be such a remarkable | | | | used recently and have it stored in the |
| gadget if not for its amazing memory. | | | | computer's hard disk, thereby freeing |
| Computer memory makes it possible to retain | | | | valuable space in RAM for loading other |
| important information on a computer. Such | | | | applications. A virtual memory will make a |
| data can be used again and again and | | | | computer think that it has almost unlimited |
| retrieved when a certain stored data is | | | | RAM inside it. |
| needed. Without the computer memory, the | | | | |
| processor will have no facility where to | | | | Another type of computer memory that has made |
| store its important calculations and | | | | computers process tasks faster is what is |
| processes, thereby making them useless. | | | | called cache memory. Cache memory works |
| | | | simply by having current applications, |
| There are different types of computer memory | | | | calculations and processes stored in its |
| tasked to store different types of data. They | | | | memory instead of directly to the main |
| also have different capabilities and | | | | storage area. When a certain process is in |
| specialties when it comes to storing | | | | need of data previously used, it first will |
| necessary data inside the computer. The best | | | | try to access the cache memory if such data |
| known computer memory is the RAM, otherwise | | | | is stored there before accessing the central |
| known as Random Access Memory. It is called | | | | memory storage area. This frees up the |
| random access because any stored data can be | | | | computer from looking for the data in a |
| accessed directly if you know the exact row | | | | larger and bigger memory storage area and |
| and column that intersect a certain memory | | | | makes data extraction faster. Computer memory |
| cell. In this type of computer memory, data | | | | is in a constant state of development as more |
| can be accessed in any order. RAM's exact | | | | and more technologies are being developed. |
| opposite is called SAM or Serial Access | | | | Who knows, maybe in the near future computer |
| Memory, which stores data in a series of | | | | memory might also be fit for human |
| memory cells that can only be accessed in | | | | consumption. |
| order. It operates much like a cassette tape | | | | |