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Re: RAM removed......doni

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Re: RAM removed......

doni

posted on Mar 21, 2007 11:01AM

Keep your pocket protector in place, BL's comment was a joke. More about RP Speak than doni speak.

However, simple processes you may find easy to understand, others do not. "RAM" in not intuative in any way to the real world where most people don't care about how a hunk of metal and plastic displays their Word .doc, or email or this screen -- it's just supposed to happen. It's only important when it doesn't work with or without RAM, DRAM, SRAM, SPAMN (good with crackers)

As for RAM being removed, this is not the first time nor the first company to do so. Not a big deal until you can prove an infringment on EDIG's patents and someone actually takes action by putting the mean ole copy cat company "on notice." I am quite certain thousands of patents are copied every day and the patent holders have neither the means or the desire to prosecute. (Thus, my "Sell Something" mantra from days gone by)

Big Deal today: NO, IMO

Big Deal Someday: MAYBE, the jury is still out

Note to all:

RAM =
random access memory

When you run an application like Microsoft Word, the program is called up from its permanent storage area (like the hard drive, floppy disk, or CD-ROM) and moved into the RAM, where it sends requests to the CPU. Using the faster PC100 memory preferred by 350-, 400-, and 450-MHz Pentium II processors means your information spends less time in line before being processed. (PC100 chips are rated to perform at bus speeds up to 100 MHz.) Your computer should have as much RAM as you can afford so it can work efficiently. It also pays to have lots of memory in your system because some operating systems, including Windows 95 and 98, swap applications from memory to your hard drive when the RAM gets filled. That means that instead of having your speedy RAM sending out requests, the OS sends the work to be done by the much slower hard drive.

If anyone is actually interested in this drivel, here's a place where they are pretty good at keeping the techo speak to a minimum: