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Why Can't You Download RAM?

Random Access Memory, usually just "RAM," is a type of short-term storage attached to the motherboard of your PC. Sadly ...
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What Type of Memory Uses Part of the Hard Drive as Though It Were RAM?

The PC uses RAM to hold running programs, open documents and the intermediate results of calculations. Programs can, however, be too large to fit in a computer's memory, which causes problems. Before ...
PC Magazine

virtual memory

Simulating more random access memory (RAM) than actually exists, which allows the computer to run larger programs as well as multiple programs concurrently. Actually developed back in the 1950s, ...
ZDNet

The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performance

Running a 64-bit operating system allows you to break the 4GB memory barrier. But are there advantages to loading up with 8GB of RAM? Following Ed Bott's blog post yesterday on Vista 64-bit, my inbox ...