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This chapter presents different types of memory used in a computer such as semiconductor memory (RAM, RAM, SRAM, and DRAM), hard disk operation, memory hierarchy, cache memory, cache memory mapping methods, and virtual memory and its operation.
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Chapter 1 On p. 13, section 1.7 In the example (c), the arrow above the word “Sign bit” should be pointing at the furthest bit on the left of the “10100”.
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Elahi, A. (2018). Memory. In: Computer Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66775-1_7
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