• Readwrite memory, or RWM, is a type of computer memory that can be easily written to as well as read from using electrical signaling normally associated...
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  • science, read–modify–write is a class of atomic operations (such as test-and-set, fetch-and-add, and compare-and-swap) that both read a memory location...
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    the memory, in contrast with other direct-access data storage media (such as hard disks and magnetic tape), where the time required to read and write data...
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  • Read/write may refer to: File system permissions Readwrite memory This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Read/write. If an...
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    to as a lazy write. For this reason, a read miss in a write-back cache may require two memory accesses to the backing store: one to write back the dirty...
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    by cost per bit. In contemporary usage, memory is usually fast but temporary semiconductor read-write memory, typically DRAM (dynamic RAM) or other such...
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  • Write-only memory (WOM), the opposite of read-only memory (ROM), began as a humorous reference to a memory device that could be written to but not read...
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  • Write once read many (WORM) describes a data storage device in which information, once written, cannot be modified. This write protection affords the assurance...
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    EEPROM or E2PROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) is a type of non-volatile memory. It is used in computers, usually integrated in microcontrollers...
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  • Exclusive read exclusive write (EREW)—every memory cell can be read or written to by only one processor at a time Concurrent read exclusive write (CREW)—multiple...
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    refreshing the dynamic (capacitive) memory storage cells of that row. Once the row has been activated or "opened", read and write commands are possible to that...
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  • programs on magnetic strips, removable read-only memory cartridges, flash memory, or in battery-backed read/write memory. Since the early 1990s, most of these...
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    read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read, but not write...
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  • locked in read-mode to write-mode, as well as being downgraded from write-mode to read-mode. [1] Upgrading a lock from read-mode to write-mode is prone...
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    which became commercially available in 1974. It combined read-only memory, read/write memory, processor and clock on one chip and was targeted at embedded...
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  • In information technology, a write-only memory (WOM) is a memory location or register that can be written to but not read. In addition to its literal meaning...
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    in read-only memory while data memory generally requires read-write memory. In some systems, there is much more instruction memory than data memory so...
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  • programmable read-only memory EEPROM uses voltage to erase memory. These erasable memory devices require a significant amount of time to erase data and write new...
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    initial processor instructions required to bootstrap a computer system. Read-write memory such as NVRAM can be used to store calibration constants, passwords...
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    MB. The RAM in a read/write memory card is backed up by a replaceable coin-cell battery, which lasts around two years. Read-only memory cards (listed in...
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  • which read and write data consecutively and therefore the data can only be accessed in the same sequence it was written. Semiconductor memory also has...
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  • read by the processor writing to it Write-only (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Write-only memory....
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    systems. It is the read-write memory directly addressable by the processor for use by the operating system and application programs. As memory prices rapidly...
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    read and word write lines were combined into a single wire, resulting in a memory array with just two wires per bit. For write, multiple word write lines...
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  • in main memory. The cache is required to write the data back to the main memory at some time in the future, before permitting any other read of the (no...
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    flash memory in 1987. EPROMs had to be erased completely before they could be rewritten. NAND flash memory, however, may be erased, written, and read in...
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  • (original version) has a per-file read-only attribute that applies to all users. OpenVMS defines four access functions: read, write, execute and delete and user...
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    themselves to read-write memory before execution, or They are placed into special ROM cards that provide a few words of read/write memory, accessed indirectly...
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  • musician Robot Wars (disambiguation) Readwrite access to files or directories, in file system permissions Readwrite memory Rewritable media RenderWare, a...
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  • manipulate data values using registers, change or retrieve values in read/write memory, perform relational tests between data values and to control program...
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