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| | cache - Glossary - CNET.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Caches come in many types, but they all work the same way: they store information where you can get to it fast. |
 | | A Web browser cache stores the pages, graphics, sounds, and URLs of online places you visit on your hard drive; that way, when you go back to the page, everything doesn't have to be downloaded all over again. |
 | | Of course, disk access is slower than RAM access, so there's also disk caching, which stores information you might need from your hard disk in faster RAM. |
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