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Memory is the ability to retain data for a period of time, short
or long. This data can be of a complexity including imagery, sounds,
sensations, smells and other sensations like human memory, or it can
be predetermined data as in computer memory.
One of the differences between human and machine memory is that
we can program and access machine memory through the use of
software, but we cannot access human memory in the same
straightforward manner. Yet.
Machine memory comes in a variety of types. Below we have listed
a sampling of these types. Depending on which type of hardware they
are for, computer, computer notebook, printer, camera, computer
video card, MP3 player or other device, the chips are different and
assembled in different ways.
Memory factors are speed, usually expressed in ns
(nanoseconds), number of pins with which they connect, amount of
memory in Mb (megabytes) and type of memory access.
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There are a number of companies which manufacture machine memory.
After the memory crises of the mid-1990's, prices should now
stabilise as machine memory is made by more companies than before.
This, however, results in a proliferation of standards, with each
manufacturer only making, and designing, memory modules for its own
products. Bringing prices up again under the principle of sole
supplier.
The following manufacturers either make memory for a variety of
companies or only for their own products.
Not all memory chips are of good quality. As properly
functioning computer memory is vital to the overall functioning
and speed of your computer system, it is good advice to buy a
quality brand of computer memory rather than go for the
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Memory. At the word we think of human memory, and of machine
memory. Computer memory.
Memory is a vital part of both machine and animal. Without it we
as humans would not have any consciousness and the ability to
create. Animals would not be able to survive.
In machines, and especially in computers, memory allows the
machine to function in various ways, for example software to be run
and data to be saved and processed.
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