{"id":113,"date":"2024-06-25T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:34:40","slug":"what-is-primary-memory-and-its-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/cs-it\/what-is-primary-memory-and-its-types","title":{"rendered":"What is Primary Memory and its types?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The memory stores the instructions and data for an executing program. Memory is characterized by the smallest addressable unit as one of the following.<\/p>\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\r\n<li>Byte addressable<\/li>\r\n<li>Word addressable<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Random Access Memory (RAM)<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAM is Read\/write memory, Random access, and data is temporarily stored.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Memory Registers<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Register memory is the smallest and fastest memory in a computer. It is not a part of the main memory and is located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/cs-it\/operating-system\/what-is-cpu-scheduling-and-its-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPU<\/a> in the form of registers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/cs-it\/what-is-address-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/cs-it\/cache-memory-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a> <br \/><strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-computer-organization-and-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is Computer Organization and Architecture?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memory stores the instructions and data for an executing program. Memory is characterized by the smallest addressable unit as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[42,43,44,45,46],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-it","category-computer-organization-and-architecture","tag-byte-addressable","tag-memory-registers","tag-primary-memory","tag-random-access-memory","tag-word-addressable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}