These tests were done on a PC with a 533MHz processor and 64MB of RAM. So most of this article was written with fingers, not vocal cords. The Dragon files on the hard disk were 135MB, and IBM's a whopping 313MB, which will grow the more training I do.
If you turn a computer off, RAM loses its data and this must be reloaded from a disk drive, CD-ROM, etc. RAM Random Access Memory. This is where programs currently in use by a computer are kept. Some programs that perform automated tasks are...
A new form of memory based on magnetic principles is nearly ready for mass production, offering benefits for increasingly complex mobile devices. IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how Magnetic Random Access...
The ZX81 became the first Sinclair machine available on the high street and despite having just one kilobyte of RAM, no colour and a keyboard that a cash till would be ashamed of, 350,000 units were sold in the first year.
Some say it matches the memory - 5KB RAM plus 15KB ROM - others say it is from the number of columns its screen allowed, rounded down from 22. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series.
Vista will find it for you - Need more RAM? I suspect a lot of people will encounter this problem in the months immediately following Vista's full release. So far, we've seen more dialogues, from explaining why an application won't run to warning...