Minecraft wiki entry for Redstone_computers, associated text: Thirdly is Random Access Memory (RAM), this is much slower than the caches and registers as they have address systems. They are connected to three busses, data bus, control bus and the address bus. The data is sent through the data bus, either setting the RAM or getting values from the RAM. The control bus tells it whether it is being get or set. The address bus tells the RAM where the byte is. Refer to the Architecture of the Computer to understand this more in-depth. RAM is very useful and could fully replace tertiary memory (explained below) because of its non-volatility in Minecraft. Volatile means that when power is lost, it will lose information. The RAM will not lose information unlike in real life, and therefore in an excellent method of storing information.