Random Access Memory Analysis

Whenever I have a seat at my desk and gaze into the void, black screen, I am overwhelmed with the thought of the steps it took me to get there. I try to comprehend the endless codes, commands, pieces, and elements that exist in this mad thing I created. The thought of a traitor, whom I believed in as a mentor and followed, continues to haunt me. In my adoration of processors and motherboards, I experience infinite memories haunted by him. I often ask myself if I have created a monster or become one. In the late spring of this year, my sister brought home an honest ex-marine, carpenter, and computer genius, or so I thought. We spoke of endless topics over an old-fashioned game of horseshoes. Days became weeks and weeks became months as his silhouette of lies unraveled. After five months of lounging around, he …show more content…
If I were asked to compare a computer to anything in the world, my choice would be the human brain. The work of the central processing unit, or CPU for short, is similar to the way algebra is solved, through several different steps. The random access memory, also known as RAM, is, for its namesake, random and is also similar to how random facts can be recalled or how simple arithmetic is answered. A hard drive, or storage, is the memory on the tip of the tongue at times. It consists of things that one is certain that he or she knows, but doesn’t recall immediately. There are many similarities between computers and other things that are simply written off as ordinary. What I have learned travels far beyond the concept of what a computer is. I have learned what a computer can do. I have seen the havoc a virus can wreak. I now fear the camera on my laptop at times because of the horror of malware. I hear stories told by the Information Technology workers at my school about hackers and their time served in prison or working for the government without any personal technology that can access the World Wide