In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

In win2k, task manager gives me what it calls "MEM usage." I've always understood this to be the amount of memory used by both user and kernel processes, in both physical RAM and swapfile. I take it ...

In a computer, the entire memory can be separated into different levels based on access time and capacity. Figure 1 shows different levels in the memory hierarchy. Smaller and faster memories are kept ...

In this post, we are going to explain the differences between SRAM and DRAM. These are types of RAM (Random Access Memory) which is an internal memory of a computer. Now, if you are curious about ...