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What's The Difference Between RAM And ROM Memory?
RAM and ROM are both necessary for modern devices to work, and while RAM's purpose hasn't changed much over the years, what we call ROM has evolved.
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ROM stopped being truly “read-only” decades ago.
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Textbooks will have you believe this is a simple question with an equally simple answer. And it is in theory, but there's quite a bit of nuance to unpack.
Fundamentally, random access memory (RAM) is the memory your device thinks with, and read-only memory (ROM) is the memory it remembers with. RAM holds whatever the processor is working on and it's all lost when power is cut; ROM stores the permanent instructions…
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