Using Soft RAM instead meant the chore took 176 seconds, 3 seconds more than without the program.
Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50 by using RAM for the brick representation.
Their 4K memory board used dynamic RAM and it had several design problems.
Swap memory could be activated and deactivated any moment allowing the user to choose to use only physical RAM.
Modern processors use either static or dynamic RAM as main memory, the latter often being implicitly accessed via one or more cache levels.
If you boot up your computer and it takes several minutes for everything to work properly, chances are you could use more RAM.
These computers can use RAM instead of tape or disk as a non-volatile storage medium.
Life is easier with a computer that uses diskettes or RAM.
For technical reasons, both numbers are somewhat deceptive, but the difference is real; when the computer uses RAM instead of the hard drive, things happen faster.
It also is used to avoid the need to use Dual-ported RAM when the readers and writers are different devices.