Compact
Compact verb - To bring (something) to a central point or under a single control.
Ram
Common collocations
| planet | compact planet | ram planet |
Both words in one sentence
- Typically slower, less compact and more power hungry than RAM, but far cheaper and more capacious, and unlike RAM they generally do not require constant power to retain their data.
Source: Useful Notes / Mass Storage -
The latter problem lead to a fully outfitted system for Car Fu in the nWoD, including statistics for vehicles, damage based on speed and weight of both "participants", and examples of when Car Fu is a really bad idea (using a small compact to try to ram a Death Raging Werewolf, for example).
Source: Car Fu -
Dynamic RAM, on the other hand, uses capacitors to store bits (it requires generally one capacitor and, maybe, one diode to store one bit, which takes much less silicon space), so it's much more compact and thus cheap.
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