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A quick guide to computer components (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ram is closest to human short term memory

Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

My ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But we have multiple working memories with different saving times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Have you heard of CPU and GPU caches and registers? Even the storage in a PC has cache(s).