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If you’ve studied computer science for any length of time, you’ll be familiar with the concept of the CPU – the Central Processing Unit. It’s widely referred to as ‘the brain of the computer’ in the same way that mitochondria are ‘the powerhouse of the cell’. It’s almost a cliché at this point – but […]
Main memory (also known as primary memory, or primary storage) is a name given to multiple types of memory in your computer. The most talked about sub-types of main memory are Random Access Memory (RAM) and Read-only Memory (ROM) – but there’s also the important cache memory. The big question most students ask is, why