Computers and other electronic devices
use different types of memory to perform different functions.
Not exact matches
New
types of computer
memory pop up every few years as firms such as HP, IBM, Motorola / Freescale and even startups try to create alternatives that are cheaper, faster, more dense or otherwise offer a
different series
of trade - offs than the dominant forms
of memory used today.
There are
different types of mattresses that are designed for several purposes such as
memory foam and waterbeds but you can't
use them for the babies as they don't have the ability to provide extra comfort to the baby.
But DRAM is fundamentally
different from the
type of memory typically
used for on - chip caches, and existing cache - management schemes don't
use it efficiently.
While on Apple's tablet you get only a proprietary port for charging / docking / extension modules and a 3.5 mm jack, the Slider offers as well a microSDHC card slot, mini HDMI port (
Type C) and a ful - size USB 2.0 port you can
use to connect a bunch
of different accessories, like
memory sticks, external hard - drives or a mouse.
It was hard enough twenty years ago (when I was still
typing my law school papers) to imagine the impact
of the Internet, the scope
of online law - related information and other technologies that support legal research (e-mail, laser printing, scanning, etc.)[although twenty years ago I did have a Commodore computer that
used a cassette tape deck as its
memory — you had to fast forward the tape to get to
different spots on the
memory!.]