RAM

RAM IS YOUR SYSTEM SHORT-TERM MEMORY.DATA IS TEMPORARY STORED HERE UNTIL YOU SAVE YOUR WORK TO THE HARD DISK.THIS SHORT-TERM MEMORY DISAPPEARS WHEN THE COMPUTER IS TURNED OFF,ON.SO ALOWAYS SAVE YOUR FILE BEFORE TURINING OFF THE MACHINE WHEN YOU SAVE YOU ARE SAVING IT TO LONG TERM STORAGE THE MORE RAM YOU HAVE THE FASTER YOUR COMPUTER PERFORMS RAM IS MEASURD IN MEANBYTES (MB) OR GIGABYTES(GB).
TO UNDERSTAND MAGABYTES AND GIGABYTES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BITES AND BYTES.A BIT IS THE SMALLEST UNIT OF DATA IN COMPUTER PROCESSING A BYTE IS A GROUP OF EIGHT BITS. A MAGABYTES IS 1024,MAGABYTES TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE,CONSIDER THAT A PRINTED PAGE OF SINGLE SPACED TEXT CONTAIONS ABOUT 400 PAGES OF SINGLE SPACED TEXT.