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excerpt: "Anybody who is into computers these days is bound to hear things like dynamic RAM, cache RAM, video RAM, static RAM, dual port RAM. Almost anyone knows about RAM, but what are these strange words in front? What do they all mean?"
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# The Story of “RAM”

Anybody who is into computers these days is bound to hear things like dynamic RAM, cache RAM, video RAM, static RAM, dual port RAM. Almost anyone knows about RAM, but what are these strange words in front? What do they all mean?