Computer Science - Operating Systems Concepts - Discussion

A data-storage device in which a location is identified by its informational content rather than by names, addresses, or relative positions, and from which the data may be retrieved. Also known as associative storage.

Associative memory in computer technology is also referred to as content-addressable memory. Associative memory can be directly accessed by the content rather than the physical address in the memory.

The type of memory that be accessed Through by contents rather than memory addresses. Also called CAM (content Addressable Memory). It is also called associative memory, associative storage, or associative array.

It is a type of RAM

Content addressable memory is type of computer memory i.e. that fetch the address of the content is called the associative memory.

A storage device in which a data location is identified by its informational content rather than by names, addresses, or relative positions, and from which the data may be retrieved. Also known as associative storage.

Associative Memory is also known as Content Addressable Memory.

Imagine that you were writing a blog engine. Instead of storing blog entries in an array of some sort, addressed by memory address or index into the array, you just create nodes out in space. You don't address these nodes with memory addresses. Rather, you attach information to the node like:This is of type 'blog entry. The author is so-and-so. This is the date it was created. These are the categories it belonged to. Stuff like that.

When you want to retrieve an entry by date, you tell the Associative Memory that you want it to give you back Nodes that are of type 'blog entry, ' for which the date they were created on is X. The Associative Memory then looks through it's stores for any node that fits that shape, and then returns it to you.

Its address to generated on the memory. Its as a temporary memory.

Nice explanation @Akanksha Singh.

Nice explanation, Thanks.