Abstract
It is characteristic for a computer that it not only can execute a large number of prescribed instructions very rapidly, but also that it can store, temporarily or permanently, such instructions as well as their results and other data. For this purpose, the computer is equipped with various facilities. We will discuss four of these briefly.
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© 1988 Pim Oets
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Oets, P. (1988). Storage Media. In: MS-DOS and PC-DOS. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09893-4_3
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