Primary storage
What Primary storage means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Primary storage
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Reference: OCR
Fast storage that the CPU can access directly, with RAM acting as this type of storage.
Memory that is directly accessible to the CPU, and ROM is a type of it.
Topics that use Primary storage
- Primary storage (memory) (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Cache
- Cache size
- Computer start-up sequence
- CPU access to instructions and data
- Page file or swap file
- Speed and performance
- Start-up and firmware
- Swapping
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