Talk:Random-access memory

History of term "RAM"
This article does not answer a couple rather basic questions:

CapnZapp (talk) 16:55, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * When and where and by whom was the term "random access memory" in RAM coined?
 * Why did it stick, even though, as Prof Tanenbaum writes in his book Structured Computer Organization: The memories we have studied so far can all be read and written. Such memories are called RAMs (Random Access Memories), which is a misnomer because all memory chips are randomly accessible, but the term is too well established to get rid of now.

Another meaning?
I've found a usage where it seems to mean something not matching what I've read in this article. It seems like the following are examples of random access memory as used there: This includes two stacks (which can be used as a tape or as registers), but not one stack. Orisphera2 (talk) 17:33, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * A queue
 * A tape
 * At least two registers that can store arbitrary natural numbers that you can increment and try to decrement, receiving feedback on whether that was successful.