Memory Review Exercises

3. Most RAM memory in a PC will come in the form of _____________ chips embedded on a SIMM chip.

  1. No. Dual In-Line Pin chips are more often SRAM, used for external (L2) cache.

  2. No. Read Only Memory is usually BIOS or CMOS or some controller chip.

  3. No. BIOS chips are definitely not RAM. It is ROM. A bridge looks at physical addresses, not network addresses.

  4. Correct. SIMM chips (or boards) have DRAM chips attached to them. The actual memory is in the DRAM chips. The SIMM chip is just the interface to the motherboard.

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