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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
WHO CARES?! Obviously you do, of course.
Another thing, Wikipedia is user-generated content, anyone can edit it. Anyone who studied in this decade will know that it's not accepted as a single credible source.
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I have moderator priveleges at Wikipedia. I can create new threads. There are actually some pretty strict guidelines. Non-accurate content does not last long there. It is MUCH more reliable than it was a few years ago. There are literally thousands of unpublished threads dating back mulitple years waiting for moderator approval. I can approve them. And the content I referenced matches decades of experience in the field that defined these words. Here is another source that calls RAM "storage":
http://dictionary.reference.com/brow...latile+storage
When I started using computers, we did not have hard drives. Programs were in nonvolatile core memory, and just stayed there. And it did its job, much like embedded computers in a microwave oven or automobile. You could mount a magnetic tape and change the programming, if you needed to upgrade your program (or if you needed to run a different job, like month-end processing).
Data was stored in "core storage" (also called core memory). Synonyms. You can distinguish internal and external storage, or volatile and nonvolatile, but they are still storage and memory. And future computers are going back to having only one kind of memory storage device.
Saying that memory and storage are not the same thing is like saying that water and hydrogen hydroxide (H2O) are not the same thing. If you do not understand how technical words are used correctly, then please do not mis-correct people who do understand how to use them in their proper context.