A.2. Section 1—The Processor and Memory
Systems are available with one or multiple processors. Random Access Memory (RAM) is presently cheap and easy to find. Processor speed seems to double every eighteen months and almost as soon as a new system is purchased, it becomes obsolete.
The speed and the number of processors will determine the sheer raw power that a computer has. Speed is measured in megahertz (MHz) and more is always better.
The memory that a system has installed will also effect the overall speed of the computer. If the system runs out of physical memory, it will, if the space has been set aside for it, start paging memory to disk. This is the process of writing a portion of memory that has not been used recently (in computer terms ...
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