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main storage

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main storage

Same as memory.


main storage [′mān ′stȯr·ij]
(computer science)
A digital computer's principal working storage, from which instructions can be executed or operands fetched for data manipulation. Also known as main memory.


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As Jim and Brent show me the cavernous main storage site, a white van backs right into the facility.
If the main storage device should fail, data on the secondary storage device can immediately be promoted to primary status and brought online.
That water will eventually run off during the spring thaw and into the Feather River drainage basin, which feeds Lake Oroville, the main storage reservoir for the State Water Project.
 
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