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ROM, is Read Only Memory. It is a secure chip on which the manufacturers have burned data the computer needs in order to boot up the Operating System. It is not affected on losing power. RAM, on the other-hand, is Random Access Memory, and is very volatile, losing any data held in memory on powering down.

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What differenc between ROM and RAm?

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What is the memory that holds items that can be read but not erased or changed?

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