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PRAM

(1) (Phase Change RAM) Pronounced "P-ram. See phase change memory.

(2) (Parameter RAM) Pronounced "P-ram." A battery-backed part of the Macintosh's memory that holds Control Panel settings and the settings for the hidden desktop file. If the command and option keys are held down at startup, the desktop settings are cleared and a dialog to rebuild the desktop is initiated.

pram
Nautical a light tender with a flat bottom and a bow formed from the ends of the side and bottom planks meeting in a small raised transom
(hardware)PRAM - 1. parallel random-access machine.

2. parameter RAM.


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When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could.
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