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Main Memory

May 01, 20261 min read

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Main Memory

Main memory is the primary working memory of a computer system.

It stores the instructions and data that are currently needed by the processor.

Main memory is typically larger and slower than cache, and is commonly implemented using dynamic random-access memory.

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191.003 Computer Systems
Active Process
Associative Cache
Cache Associativity
Cache Miss Penalty
Cache Miss
Cache Set Contention
Cache Write-Hit
Cache Write-Miss
Cache
Data Cache
Deadlock
Demand Paging
Direct-Mapped Cache
Disk Cache
Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory
Dynamic Random-Access Memory
Fetch Policy
Fully Associative Cache
IO Buffering
Instruction Cache
Integrated Deadlock Strategy
L3 Cache
Memory Controller
Memory Management
Memory Partitioning
Memory
Multi-level Cache
N-Way Set Associative Cache
Page
Set-Associative Cache
Translation Lookaside Buffer

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