primary memory
noun[U]
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What we now call working memory was referred to as a short-term store or short-term memory,primarymemory, immediate memory, operant memory, or provisional memory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are both synchronous, serial machines with fixed head disks forprimarymemory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If needed,primarymemorycan be stored in secondary memory, through a memory management technique called virtual memory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Virtual memory was therefore introduced not only to extendprimarymemory, but to make such an extension as easy as possible for programmers to use.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This 10min.wav file can then be inserted 5 more times (or as many times as there is room inprimarymemory) to create a 1hour.wav file.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ultimately, the probe returns an echo toprimarymemory.
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Following multiple-trace theory, acoustic and visual signals processed inprimarymemoryconstitute probes or retrieval cues that activate in parallel stored traces in long-term memory.
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Indeed, one might even argue that the sizes of primary memories within a not too distant future will be large enough to accommodate traces of such sizes.
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