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Just for those who may still be unclear of what RAM means, even after the above description, here is how I managed to learn about RAM. This is how I from thereafter explained it:-

1). Consider you are at your desk. You want to look at some files, and so you pull open your filing cabinate and take out 6 folders, and take th contents out of those folders. They fit neatly on your desk. You can see all the contents from all those files on your desk.

2). Now consider the instance when you wish to take out more flders and place their contents on your desk. Well, you find out now taht you do not have enough space on your desk.

3). The next thing you can do is buy a larger desk that will be large enough for you to take all the contents out of those second batch of folders and place them on your desk so taht you will be able to view all of your files contents.

This therefore is how I view RAM. It permits me to have more documents opened at one time and find them easily when I want a particular document. It saves me the task of getting up from the desk and walking over to the file cabinate and brining over the folders one by one. At the end of the day, I would not leave all those documents on top of my desk, so I would place them back into my file cabinate (hard drive) and my desk top will be cleared of all docuements.

Regards]]>Jan 25th 2010 8:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/http://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/Jan 25th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/http://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/When I first got into this all we had was simple AND,OR,NAND, NOR etc seniconductors. That was the 1970's. Then I went to work building anti-tank rockets. Someone figured out a way to interface a clock drive & ram with your tv and the Commodore 64 was born: The first actual computer. It had 64 K of memory. Everybody realized that to do anything the "box" would need more memory and the race was on. There were and still are behind the scenes geniuses involved, especially at Intel the chip maker. And this is still only just the beginning. Learning computers, AI, robots that do everything, etc. are still on the way. Right now I'm working on new micro-scopic robots that will switch-out the DNA in cells extending human life to 150 years or more. All the nay-sayers, 2012 people etc, I'm not in that group, sorry....Alfred- ]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/http://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/Jan 27th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/http://www.switched.com/2010/01/22/switched-tells-you-how-to-take-ram-by-the-horns/http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm

64-bit versions of Windows correct this error, and are able to access more memory just by nature of being 64-bit. Things get messy here though. Theoretically a 64-bit system can address 16 Exabytes of RAM, that 16.3 million Terabytes. However Microsoft places artificial limits on how much memory its OS can access, they are as follows:
* Starter: 8GB
* Home Basic: 8GB
* Home Premium: 16GB
* Professional: 192GB
* Ultimate: 192GB
When it comes to Linux and OS X things are a little less concrete -- You can buy a Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM and an Xserve with 48, but what the limitations of the OS are isn't clear. Linux is also a bit of a mystery, the most recent figure I could find was from 2005 when 64 Unix and Linux were capable of addressing 1TB or physical RAM.]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:07PM