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Originally Posted by HarryT
They are used for different purposes, and it's confusing to use the word "memory" to refer to both. If I say "my computer has 8GB of memory", I don't mean that the capacity of its disk drive is 8GB; I mean that it has 8GB RAM.
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I did mean RAM. I always thought of the low level ROM as untouchable. It didn't used to be part of the OS but rather the hardware's exclusive little playground. Then the hardware makers started extending the graphics card memory into RAM and Windows started using RAM for its swap file, even extending the feature to use an SD card if it found one, I gave up distinguishing the two types entirely.
You're right. I used sloppy language.