Memory Introduction

A computer's memory is where it stores all its information. Its initial capacity is already defined, but it can normally be increased when it is needed. This is certainly true of the Z88. Memory is not as we tend to think, simply a storage area like a filing cabinet. All tasks or programs need space in the memory to enable the computer to do them. A good analogy is to compare the to our working area say like an organised office. There is some space taken up by the filing system, but there is also a desk which not only provides space to do work, but also space for in/out trays. Then there are those piles of started work waiting to be finished. Well that's what our desks look like anyway! There's also space for you: the job wouldn't be done if you weren't there. That is the same with computers: it wouldn't be able to anything without its various programs and its operating systems. They all take up space in the memory as well as the text and data that is being in-putted.

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