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INSTALLED MEMORY [7 records]

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Record 1 2022-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

Our [mainframe computer] was installed with the maximum amount of solid-state RAM [random access memory] that could be addressed by the IOM [input/output module] and CPM [central processor module], and that was a massive 8 megabytes. This was a hard limitation as memory addresses were included in fixed length bit fields in the instructions and this limitation was architected into the machine design.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

The cache memory or... central processing unit(CPU) cache that is housed, placed or installed external to a computer processor.

CONT

External cache is implemented in several layers - all providing different speeds and capacity levels. For example, L2 [level 2] and L3 [level 3] caches are common examples or layers of external cache. A L2 cache is faster but has less storage capacity than a L3 cache.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
DEF

Mémoire cache [...] disposée à l'extérieur du processeur.

OBS

Elle est éventuellement extensible par ajout de barrettes mémoire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
CONT

En las computadoras personales de la segunda mitad de la década de 1990, el "back side bus" (BSB, literalmente "bus trasero", en contraposición al frontal o FSB) se refiere a la conexión entre un microprocesador y su memoria caché externa, en particular y comúnmente la de segundo nivel o L2 (en inglés, "level 2").

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Record 3 2018-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

The routine to convert writes to reads is installed... in video memory, and takes 17h bytes. This meants that memory mappers will not find it, but it could be overwritten by a video write.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

Once the virus has installed itself into memory, it will infect any executable file that is opened.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Aussitôt installé en mémoire, le virus infecte tous les fichiers exécutables qui sont ouverts.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Systems Analysis (Information Processing)
  • Computer Memories
CONT

It is recommended that when installing new memory options... that this memory be tested with your system when it is first installed.... This will allow system ROM to perform a read/write check to all the memory installed in the system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Analyse des systèmes informatiques
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Análisis de los sistemas de informática
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

Verificación específica de la exactitud en la lectura, escritura, detección, perforación, registro, etc., llevada a cabo mediante la comparación o detección de lo que ha sido escrito, comparado y/o detectado contra lo que se espera que deba ser leído y/o escrito.

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Record 6 2001-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

Memory areas that exist between the 640K upper limit of conventional RAM and the 1-Mbyte memory address where extended memory is installed.

CONT

High RAM memory which was mappable, but now is reserved for use by LOADHI.COM.

OBS

See file "high-DOS memory".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
CONT

Si au laboratoire d'ordinateurs plusieurs logiciels (par exemple TSRs) et Trésors de famille sur Internet seront exploités simultanément, une mémoire vive supérieure pourrait être requise. Le programme nécessite un minimum de 6 MB d'espace du disque dur de chaque ordinateur sur lequel il sera installé.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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