> I have been surprised in the past by people I would have described as fairly tech-savvy, who still called hard drive space "memory". That's not really incorr

> I have been surprised in the past by people I would have described as fairly tech-savvy, who still called hard drive space "memory". That's not really incorrect, though. RAM is random access memory, as opposed to memory that has other access patterns. It's less common these days, but among people who learned to use computers in the 80s, you'll still hear some use "memory" to refer to storage that isn't RAM.