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A quick guide to computer components (lemmy.world)
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[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

Ram is closest to human short term memory

Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 22 points 5 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.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 5 months ago

But we have multiple working memories with different saving times.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
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