Wednesday, December 31, 2008

How Does Computer Memory Work?

  • A computers memory is addressable,
  • each memory location will contain some sort of `value',
  • Each location has a specific `number' (represented as hexadecimal
  • Fortran 90 allows (English) names to be given to memory locations,
  • the value of a location can be read from or written to.

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