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What's the difference between RAM and ROM memory?

Textbooks will have you believe this is a simple question with an equally simple answer. And it is in theory, but there's quite a bit of nuance to unpack.

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Textbooks will have you believe this is a simple question with an equally simple answer. And it is in theory, but there's quite a bit of nuance to unpack. Fundamentally, random access memory (RAM) is the memory your device thinks with, and read-only memory (ROM) is the memory it remembers with.

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