Random Access Memory (RAM) is a group of memory chips, typically of the Dynamic RAM (DRAM) type, which function as the compute' s primary workspace. When personal computers first came on the market in the late 1970s, 64KB (64 kilobytes) of RAM was the upper limit. Today, 64MB (64 megabytes) of SDRAM is entry level for a desktop computer, a thousand times as much.

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