Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A memory device in which information can be accessed in any order.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • initialism electronics, computing random access memory
  • initialism project management responsibility assignment matrix
  • initialism reliability availability maintainability
  • initialism military radar absorbant material, a material absorbant to radar

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[r(andom-)a(ccess) m(emory).]

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  • May 09, 2009 at 2:13 AM quick answer, no. because it's a virtualized environment and starts out with only 256 mb of ram, it doesn't run games well at all. even with the virtual RAM boosted to 1 Gb, performance wasn't very good for graphics usage. then again, maybe I was multitasking too much...

    Set Up And Use XP Mode In Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • I have 4 GB ram on an acer5920 and I thought 64bit Ubuntu would access all this and it did report all the RAM.

    Ubuntu Forums afz12 2010

  • I think it should be stated that the main benefit of the 64-bit OS is the memory capabilities. 32bit windows just doesn't allow enough room for Civil3D to work in anymore. 64bit windows and 6 to 8 GB of ram will allow a FULL 4GB of RAM just for Civil3D to use.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • Our machines have Quad core, the best hard drives money can buy, 64 bit machine, 4 GIG video ram, 16G-32G of RAM and MEP 2010 is still a beast.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • This is DDR3 Ram and in the case of using X58 Classified board which accepts 4GB ram sticks, you need to have three sticks of RAM not just two.

    Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals 2010

  • Since the MB will only support 4GB ram (according to Intel), that limits my RAM.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

  • Our machines have Quad core, the best hard drives money can buy, 64 bit machine, 4 GIG video ram, 16G-32G of RAM and MEP 2010 is still a beast.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • I think it should be stated that the main benefit of the 64-bit OS is the memory capabilities. 32bit windows just doesn't allow enough room for Civil3D to work in anymore. 64bit windows and 6 to 8 GB of ram will allow a FULL 4GB of RAM just for Civil3D to use.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • If your motherboard has four ram banks, with alternating colors (such as blue-black blue-black) insert two sticks of RAM in matching colors.

    WoW.com 2009

  • While there, we adjust performance settings (in the advanced tab) to best performance and we set the virtual memory page file to a fixed size (custom size with initial = = maximum) of 1. 5x the amount of ram in the system (though this time, with the limited size of the SSD and the vast amount of RAM in the system, our page file is set to RAM + 512MB).

    DailyTech News Feed 2009

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