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Think of software as cars on a highway. The highway represents RAM on a computer. The more RAM the bigger the highway. As you open programs more cars are put on the highway. Like rush hour traffic the computer slows down as you put on more cars. When there is a car crash because there is to many cars the computer crashes.

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