Rom
Rom noun - (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
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Store
Store noun - A collection of things kept available for future use or need.
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The thing that sets these hybrids apart from New-World Macs is that while hybrids store both BIOS's on ROM, New-World Macs only store Open Firmware on ROM, but they are capable of loading the Toolbox off the hard disk into RAM and chainloading Toolbox from there.
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Cartridges work, in theory, by allowing the system to access data near-instantly (as fast as electricity can travel through the solid-state ROM chips used to store the game data).
Source: Loads and Loads of Loading - It wasn't until NSF Ripping note where you extract the sound code from an NES rom entirely and store it as a file which can be played with a special program became popular that people knew these songs even existed.
Source: Cut Song
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