Read Only Memory - Revision history

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Jsummers at 16:26, 18 August 2017

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Jsummers: Category:Firmware

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Category:Firmware

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Dan Tobias at 04:15, 5 October 2013

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Dan Tobias: ref

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Dan Tobias at 12:29, 4 December 2012

2012-12-04T12:29:17Z

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'''Read Only Memory''' (ROM) is contrasted with Random Access Memory (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.

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	'''Read Only Memory''' ('''ROM''') is contrasted with [[Random Access Memory]] (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.		'''Read Only Memory''' ('''ROM''') is contrasted with [[Random Access Memory]] (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.
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		+	See also [[Firmware]].

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-'''Read Only Memory''' (ROM) is contrasted with [[Random Access Memory]] (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.
+'''Read Only Memory''' ('''ROM''') is contrasted with [[Random Access Memory]] (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.
 == References ==

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	* [[Wikipedia:Read-only memory\|Read-only memory (Wikipedia)]]		* [[Wikipedia:Read-only memory\|Read-only memory (Wikipedia)]]

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	== References ==		== References ==
	* [[Wikipedia:Read-only memory\|Read-only memory (Wikipedia)]]		* [[Wikipedia:Read-only memory\|Read-only memory (Wikipedia)]]
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 == References ==
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only_memory Read-only memory (Wikipedia)]
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	'''Read Only Memory''' (ROM) is contrasted with Random Access Memory (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.		'''Read Only Memory''' (ROM) is contrasted with Random Access Memory (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.
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		+	== References ==
		+	* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only_memory Read-only memory (Wikipedia)]

	[[Category:Computer facts]]		[[Category:Computer facts]]

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	'''Read Only Memory''' (ROM) is contrasted with Random Access Memory (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.		'''Read Only Memory''' (ROM) is contrasted with Random Access Memory (RAM), which is not a permanent storage medium due to its volatility (RAM, with the exception of the "nonvolatile RAM" variety, loses its contents when the power is shut off). ROM consists of electronic chips that contain a particular sequence of bits permanently burned into them. Usually a computer system's basic [[firmware]] is contained in a ROM, which gives the computer the information it needs for basic operations even before you complete a "boot" of its operating system from disk or other media. These days, most of the operating system and other programs are not on ROM, allowing them to be updated with new versions as they are released, but a "boot loader" needs to be in ROM to tell the computer how to start loading the rest of the system ("booting" comes from a reference to "pulling itself up by its own bootstraps"). In the old days, when computers didn't usually have [[hard disk]] drives, or even [[floppy disk]] drives, much more of their system software was built into ROM, often including a [[BASIC]] language interpreter.
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		+	[[Category:Computer facts]]