program-addressable storage that is directly controlled by and generally contained in the CPU: except for cache storage, the fastest type of storage available to any computer system.
The last thing you want is to make an unappealing attraction their main memory of their last vacation.
It's the speed of light that causes designers fits as they try and remove latency from main memory and cache accesses.
It is the part of the operating system that loads first, and it remains in main memory.
They have less main memory bandwidth which can limit the performance for applications that do not reuse data cache well.
The main memory bus really is not fast enough to support the second processor, so little performance is gained from using it.
The main memory requirements are smaller than for any other known technique by an order of magnitude.
The movie may not fit into main memory so blockbuster effectively breaks an image into blocks for efficient display.
If you plan to pull a large amount of map data from the server, it is recommended that you choose a storage card over main memory.
Unlike main memory, media storage devices retain data even when the computer is turned off.
British Dictionary definitions for main memory
main memory
noun
1.
the central memory-storage facility in a computer
main memory in Technology
storage, architecture The storage device used by a computer to hold the currently executing program and its working data. A modern computer's main memory is built from random-access memoryintegrated circuits. In the old days ferrite core memory was one popular form of main memory, leading to the use of the term "core" for main memory. Computers have several other sorts of memory, distinguished by their access time, storage capicity, cost, and the typical lifetime or rate of change of the data they hold. Registers in the CPU are fast, few, expensive and typically change every few machine instructions. Other kinds are cache, PROM, magnetic disk (which may be used for virtual memory) and magnetic tape. (1996-11-04)